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[Flavien Bridault <flavien.bridault AT free.fr>]

Le dimanche 09 octobre 2005 à 21:26 +0200, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> Hi all !
> 
> At last, I got gnome-volume-manager 1.5.3 working ! :)
> 
> I will so make the needed changes, especially in udev. So before doing
> that, I want to be sure that everybody agrees.
> 
> All block devices will belong to disk group, cdrom to cdrom group.
> Haldaemon user will belong to these groups. We already have these
> groups, but afaik we don't use them by default. Sandalle suggested to do
> that in a separated rules file, i.e. 70-hal.rules, but I don't see the
> interest of not doing that by default. I don't find any reason to not
> use disk and cdroms groups for the peripherals, but if you have one,
> please let me know, that's why I opened this thread. ;-)
> 
Note that it would be also better to have burning group in our base
layout. I need to refer to it in udev rules for sg* peripherals, as well
as in hal spell, so it should be better to have it by default.

> I will make udev the default hotplug multiplexer by
> modifiying /etc/init.d/runlevels/%DEV/devices. That would not mean
> however that hotplug scripts are no more launched thanks to the use
> of /sbin/udev_run_hotplugd.
> 
> However on HAL mailing list [0], someone recommend me to no longer use
> udev_run_hotplugd and do all with explicit rules. However he didn't
> answer me why, but maybe we should later think about that.
> 
> I will add the possibility to use pmount with gvm. We could consider in
> the same time to not allow everybody to pmount devices, only members of
> a specific group, i.e. plugdev as Debian.
> 
> I also had a chance to test hotplug-ng, it seems to work as well as
> hotplug, I think we should also consider to create a HOTPLUG provider so
> that udev could be casted with hotplug-ng.
> 
> A camera group must be added to authorize regular users to access
> digital camera with libgphoto2, I will thus add it in libgphoto2 spell.
> 
> At last, a sorcery bug still prevents gvm to be casted with pmount
> support (see [1] for details). However, Karsten found a solution, but it
> might break some spells. But know that far from here, I didn't have any
> problem with the use of eval "configure..." 
> 
> All comments are welcome. :-)
> 
> [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-October/003483.html
> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9754
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