On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 01:45 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 23:22 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> > On 03/08/2014 9:55 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 21:23 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> > >> So I want to try and play around with a particular network domination
> > >> tool
> > >> on my home network, Omphalos. However, its current configure script has
> > >> a
> > >> hard dependency on bluetooth.h, part of the net-wireless/bluez package.
> > >>
> > >> Currently, net-wireless/bluez has a harddep on virtual/udev, which works
> > >> great if you use either udev or eudev. I'm using busybox's mdev
> > >> instead, so
> > >> the logic of the bluez ebuild needs some changes:
> > > [...]
> > >> Thoughts on this?
> > >
> > > Does mdev have any API which is equivalent to libudev's hwdb? See
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/libudev/libudev-udev-hwdb.html
> > >
> > > If yes, then optimal solution would be to patch bluez to allow using
> > > mdev's hwdb support, and get the patch upstreamed :)
> >
> > It's actually not a matter of the hwdb support, it's just the fact that
> > bluez currently has a harddep on a specific device manager, either udev or
> > eudev.
>
> Bluez does not require an abstract device manager. It requires the
> libudev library. Or rather, it requires some kind of library which
> provides the following API:
>
> 1. querying hwdb (given a kernel modalias for a device, retrieve
> corresponding oui, vendor, and model data); and
> 2. querying the device tree (manually traversing /sys is of course
> possible, but not very easy to do correctly, so bluez developers are
> relying on libudev).
And by "requires", I mean that without libudev, a variety of bluetooth
devices and adapters will simply fail to work.
So if mdev does not have some equivalent of libudev, a reasonable
solution would probably be the following:
@@ -14,19 +14,19 @@
LICENSE="GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+"
SLOT="0/3"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
-IUSE="cups debug +obex readline selinux systemd test"
+IUSE="cups debug +obex readline selinux systemd test +udev"
REQUIRED_USE="test? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
RDEPEND="
>=dev-libs/glib-2.28:2
>=sys-apps/dbus-1.6:=
>=sys-apps/hwids-20121202.2
- >=virtual/udev-171
cups? ( net-print/cups:= )
obex? ( dev-libs/libical )
readline? ( sys-libs/readline:= )
selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bluetooth )
systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
+ udev? ( >=virtual/udev-171 )
"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
virtual/pkgconfig
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
pkg_setup() {
enewgroup plugdev
use test && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+
+ if ! use udev; then
+ ewarn "You are installing ${P} with USE=-udev. This means
various bluetooth"
+ ewarn "devices and adapters from Apple, Dell, Logitech etc.
will fail to work."
+ fi
}
src_prepare() {
@@ -92,13 +97,13 @@
$(use_enable test) \
--enable-tools \
--enable-monitor \
- --enable-udev \
+ $(use_enable udev) \
$(use_enable cups) \
$(use_enable obex) \
--enable-client \
$(use_enable systemd) \
$(systemd_with_unitdir) \
- --enable-sixaxis
+ $(use_enable udev sixaxis)
}
src_install() {
@@ -134,7 +139,7 @@
pkg_postinst() {
readme.gentoo_print_elog
- udev_reload
+ use udev && udev_reload
has_version net-dialup/ppp || elog "To use dial up networking you must
install net-dialup/ppp."
