Reinoud Elhorst wrote: > Today I tried to get beacon up and running on my Gentoo system. I ran > into some troubles, some discussed on the list before, some not.
I will add some more doc to the README later. Thanks for the detailed report. > Next, it complained about connecting to the dbus. Starting the dbus > deamon (/etc/init.d/dbus) fixed this, however now it's complaining > about not being able to find org.freedesktop.Hal in any .services > file. Emerging hal and hal-device-manager and (re)starting the hal > and dbus daemons took care of this problem (I could imagine dbus and > hal only being used to notice a new cd/dvd being inserted, so beacon > might run without it, I just don't want to risk any cascading error > from this). There is some fallback cd/dvd detection code. But with dbus you should also detect usb sticks. But this doesn't work always (e.g. usb hd are not detected as removable, see doc in dbus.py) > And now beacon runs without an error showing, and I can monitor and > read directories. > > > The attached patch handles 3 problems in kaa.beacon: > - Calling list(True) on a file to get a recursive list, didn't work, > because the if statement is handled in the wrong order > - The function is called list (and not list-dir as mentioned in the doc) > - The doc doesn't mention that list(False) does return files > regardless of whether they have been scanned, while list(True) only > returnes scanned files. > > The updated doc should, after being approved, also be merged into the wiki. Thanks, done. BTW, since you looked at the API, do you plan to use beacon in a project outside freevo? Dischi -- Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen.
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