Thanks, Thomas. I was able to do everything I needed after running ``make install'' as a local user, up until this change, which broke my ability to run NetworkManager. I generally prefer to run ``make install'' as a local user instead of as root, even when the final program must be run as root, because there's a much lower chance that the make install will overwrite files on my root filesystem. This case, where a few files accidentally get modified outside of the prefix, has happened to me frequently enough that I am wary of running ``make install'' as root from dev source.
With your fix, users can either ``make install'' as a local user and then chown the plugin files to root, or ``make install'' as root with --without-udev-dir. This seems reasonable to me. It may still warrant documentation though. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 19:40 +0200, Thomas Haller wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 08:26 -0700, dwk wrote: >> > The >> > reason I didn't want to run ``make install' as root is because the >> > install actually tries to delete and re-create the following file: >> > /lib/udev/rules.d/77-nm-olpc-mesh.rules >> > >> > This happens even when a prefix is set. I didn't want to mess up my >> > local known-good install of NetworkManager, so I ran ``make install -k'' >> > as my local user instead (so the install succeeds, with the exception of >> > modifying /lib). >> > >> > So perhaps another fix is needed here, to fix the configure scripts in >> > case a local prefix is specified; or add a flag to configure to allow >> > local installs of NetworkManager (which would disable modifying /lib and >> > maybe disable the check-if-file-owned-by-root check for plugins). I >> > think the documentation should describe how to run multiple NM versions. >> >> You can overwrite the UDEV dir (which defaults to /lib/udev). >> >> Just >> ./configure --prefix=/tmp/NM --with-udev-dir=/tmp/NM/lib/udev ... > > [for the record] > > I pushed > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e1de236db1de03fbd1384040dfe0ecb0223fc2f0 > to master. > > now the option --without-udev-dir works as expected. > > > Thomas _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
