[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

[Martin Zecher]

I also need a newer version of polkit, since the current one (105) broke
compatibility with kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at 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 As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it,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.
>
> Ah, I didn't know about that. Are you sure that's still the model used
> here with this upstream support? How would I test? I am running
> systemd, but I also use consolekit.
>
> >> 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?
>
> I did my builds by building a broken package first (the 'make install'
> failure doesn't actually cause the build to fail), installing that
> (which created the user and group), and then building it again
> (getting a working package this time). Not very satisfactory, and not
> workable in a build chroot. Possibly it would work to allow the
> directories to get the wrong owner, and then chown them after make
> install, using the intended numeric UID/GID directly. Not very safe,
> as we might have polkitd:polkitd being something other than 102:102 on
> some systems for some reason.
>



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Martin

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