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  • From: Flavien Bridault <vlaaad AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] [other] Re: GIT changes to master grimoire by Treeve Jelbert (3b18153c260a5f6f2ba38ac3ebc29cce9e5c28eb)
  • Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:32:27 +0200

Le lundi 02 octobre 2006 à 08:54 +0200, Treeve Jelbert a écrit :
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 19:57, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > Le vendredi 29 septembre 2006 à 07:14 -0500, Treeve Jelbert a écrit :
> > > GIT changes to master grimoire by Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>:
> > >
> > > utils/dbus-glib/DEPENDS | 1 +
> > > utils/dbus-glib/DETAILS | 2 +-
> > > utils/dbus-glib/HISTORY | 4 ++++
> > > utils/dbus/DEPENDS | 1 +
> > > utils/dbus/DETAILS | 1 +
> > > utils/dbus/HISTORY | 5 +++++
> > > utils/hal/BUILD | 3 ++-
> > > utils/hal/DEPENDS | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> > > utils/hal/DETAILS | 5 ++---
> > > utils/hal/HISTORY | 12 ++++++++++++
> <snip>

> > > +2006-09-28 Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT pi.be>
> > > + * DETAILS: version 0.5.8.1
> > > + * PRE_BUILD, dbus.patch: remove
> > > + * DEPENDS: add parted
> > > + remove doxygen, add gtk-doc
> > > + add back options for expat
> > > + add dmidecode
> > > + add pkgconfig
> > > + add disabled check for polkit (no such spell yet)
> >
> > And would it not be better to add the spell ? I took a look briefly and
> > I read that disabling policy-kit is strongly discouraged :
> >
> > NOTE: WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! PolicyKit is not enabled. HAL will
> > allow any user to invoke any method. THIS IS A SECURITY RISK.
> > Use this only if you really know what you are doing. Bugs,
> > security issues and similar filed against HAL versions built
> > without PolicyKit may be ignored by the HAL maintainers.
> >
> > Disable PolicyKit usage only if you really know what you are
> > doing.
> >
>
> I searched with google, but so far have been unable to locate the polkit
> tarball. Since hal was running ok for me, I decided to submit the
> accumulated changes, pending a polkit spell

Well there is no tarball, only git access. I made a spell for it, I just
have now to configure it, especially for use with pam. After that, I
would need someone to test on a non-pam box. I may submit the spell
quickly but I'm not sure it will be finished, this stuff is not well
documented far from here.

> > So my question is: do you really know what you are doing ? ^^
> >
> > Were the policies included before that release ?
> >
> > > + * BUILD: disable polkit (not a good idea)
> > > + add missing -lz flag to LDFLAGS
> > > +
> > > 2006-07-27 Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT pi.be>
> > > * DETAILS: version 0.5.7.1
> > >
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