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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Aug 6, 2012 7:48 PM, "Martin Zecher" <mzecher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in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.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Martin
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JGC: I have been using the newer polkit locally without problems for some
months. Let me know if you want me to push it to testing.

Tom