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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

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Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> I didn't see answers to the below, and given that we just got a bug report
> about hal not casting on a system that didn't have the cdrom group, I
> wanted to put them forward again.
> 
> On Oct 09, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> 
>>On Oct 09, Flavien Bridault [f.bridault AT fra.net] wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>The latest iso doesn't have a cdrom group by default.
Do we need a cdrom group on the ISO for this to work?

>>>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. ;-)
>>
>>Will this affect only new systems or updating existing ones as well?
>>Modifying the ownership of existing devices doesn't sound wise.

So the spell will change the ownership of certain devices? Thats
probably not a Good Thing (tm)...

>>>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.
>>
>>Does this only affect people using udev?  Will it do anything to people
>>using eg static dev?
I'm not sure what's going on here...

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David Kowis

ISO Team Lead - www.sourcemage.org
SourceMage GNU/Linux

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