Dne 21.9.2016 v 15:29 Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
> Dne 10.9.2016 v 18:29 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a):
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:21:33 -0500
>> "Dustin C. Hatch" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/29/2016 11:00 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>> consolehelper should long be deprecated these days  
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, what is the preferred method for self-elevating 
>>> programs written in an interpreted language, then?
>>
>> PolicyKit. 
>>
>> Looks like there was an attempt in ~f20 to replace all the old
>> consolehelper/usermode packages with polkit, but I guess it didn't get
>> done. 
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsermodeMigration
> 
> I tried to convert mock to use pkexec. Here it is:
>   
> https://github.com/xsuchy/mock-1/commit/4276ef488ac2d134504173d88a8a58fc0a232eaf

After discussion with Mitr (most active developer of polkit) I am giving up on 
this work.
Pkexec does not have priority and it is unlikely that those problem I faced up 
will be resolved. So the migration of
Mock will likely break user experience. Therefore I will rather stay with 
consolehelper, which may be old, but it works.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys
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