Hi, On Wednesday 08 February 2012 13:10:25 John Pietrzak wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been working on a small Maemo app, and have reached the point where > I've pushed it up to Extras-Devel. Almost everything works perfectly, > except for one item: I've created a sudoers file for the app, in order > to allow it to call "modprobe" to load a kernel module. (This is the > "lirc_rx51" module, needed for access to the IR hardware.) This file > needs to go into the /etc/sudoers.d directory. > > I can install and uninstall the file just fine using the debian package > I've constructed locally. When installing the app from the Extras-Devel > repository, however, the application manager can place the file into > /etc/sudoers.d, but seems unable to remove it when uninstalling.
Try to run apt-get remove <package> in xterm. This is what application manager doing... Also see error in application manager log. > > I'm using the Qt SDK, and have recently upgraded to Qt Creator 2.4.1, so > maybe the latest Qt software creates debian packages differently than > the Extras system does... > > So, I guess these are my questions: > > 1) Do I need to do something special to install/uninstall files to the > /etc directory in Maemo? I think nothing special. Only add your /etc files to conffiles in debian package, but this is done by debhelper script for dpkg-buildpackage. So really nothing. > > 2) Should I even be using /etc/sudoers.d to let my app access modprobe? > What is the preferred way for an app to make requests of the kernel? Yes add sudoers file, run script for updating sudoers.d and use: sudo modprobe <module> > > Thanks! > > --John -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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