On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@gmail.com> wrote:

As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it, I've done the work to upgrade the polkit package to 0.107. I've tested this package locally. The main value of this upgrade (for me at least) is systemd integration, including proper systemd-style bus activation.

Unfortunately, enabling systemd support removes consolekit support, screwing over everyone not running systemd.

This now wants a dedicated user and group, by default 'polkitd'. I re-used 102, which was listed as 'policykit' in the UID/GID database. Hopefully it really was unused. The build depends on this user and group already being present (otherwise 'make install' fails to chown some directories, and polkitd fails to read them and dies).

Ah, that sucks. Any suggestions on how to handle this when building in clean chroots?

It now depends on 'js', which I added. Addition of one more 8 MB dep doesn't seem a problem.

As we now have pambase, the shipped pam config, which just uses system-auth, is useful to us. I removed the old, locally written, pam file.

Let me know if you'd rather I put this patch in the bugtracker.