Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 22:34 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: As a result, I have hal 0.5.11 installed which appears to have--undocumentedly--suddenly required PackageKit PackageKit != PolicyKit. Richard. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, (adjusting Cc list) (Polite request: please avoid sending HTML mail) On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 22:34 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Going off

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Rob Taylor
Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable packaging issue, as far as I can tell. Jason, as I said to you earlier, talk to the debian HAL package maintainer. There is no PolicyKit or HAL problem here other than you failed to find documentation to help with your weird

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:03 AM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe you just haven't tried hard enough. Fuck you. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:40 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Fuck you. I don't think so. David ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
2008/7/22 Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Rob, Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable packaging issue, as far as I can tell. Care to eloborate, why and what the actual problem actually is (especially regarding Debian)? Michael -- Why is it that all of the

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 22 juillet 2008, à 18:40 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:03 AM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe you just haven't tried hard enough. Fuck you. Come on. You know it's not going to help your cause to reply like this, don't you? Vincent

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/22 Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Rob, Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable packaging issue, as far as I can tell. Care to eloborate, why and what the actual problem actually

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
2008/7/23 Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/22 Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Rob, Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable packaging issue, as far as I can tell. Care to

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 19:11 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: The issue is that there is no user documentation at all. Not in the distribution. Not in the GUI with a Help button. Not in stub README files. Nothing. ... Nothing? Did you even look at the links I sent in my last mail? Your

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 19:24 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: If that's your policy, then you need to patch /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf to NOT use PolicyKit in a package that doesn't have support for it. There's no way to specify in a D-Bus .conf that it uses PolicyKit or not. This

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
2008/7/23 Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy files in the 0.5.11 upstream distribution are not being installed by the Debian hal package. That's quite simple. The current hal package we

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's your policy, then you need to patch /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf to NOT use PolicyKit in a package that doesn't have support for it. This is--AFAICT--an upstream bug in hal that this stanza is not removed

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the PK bits that David was discussion in his previous message that are in the Debian hal which appears to be a security problem, if nothing else:

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Going off topic a bit: It would be really nice if PolicyKit had a proper web page and mailing list. It's too important for information on it to be so fragmented.

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-06-20 Thread Murray Cumming
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 03:50 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: I'm currently trying to prepare 2.23.4 GNOME release and it seems you have enforced usage of policy-gnome in latest gnome-power-manager by default, since --gconf-defaults is

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-06-20 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Going off topic a bit: It would be really nice if PolicyKit had a proper web page and mailing list. It's too important for information on it to be so fragmented. Right. I'm actually going to try and fix this (dedicated mailing list and

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-06-19 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le jeudi 19 juin 2008 à 03:50 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: I'm currently trying to prepare 2.23.4 GNOME release and it seems you have enforced usage of policy-gnome in latest gnome-power-manager by default, since --gconf-defaults

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-06-18 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 16:32 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: s/2.26/2.24/ I guess? :-) I figured I was too late for 2.24 - if not, even better. I'm currently trying to prepare 2.23.4 GNOME release and it seems you have enforced usage

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-06-18 Thread Richard Hughes
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: I'm currently trying to prepare 2.23.4 GNOME release and it seems you have enforced usage of policy-gnome in latest gnome-power-manager by default, since --gconf-defaults is enabled by default and it requires policykit-gnome. Ahh,

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:37 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Considering that PolicyKit is just one mechanism to support authentication management, I guess I do not really understand the need to make PolicyKit mandatory. Since GNOME is free software, I would think that if Sun, or anybody, wants

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Colin: Yes, I think Jason was being unfair; as far as I know RBAC predates PolicyKit, and obviously Solaris can't just drop it in the near future. However - I do think it makes sense for a technology like this to be integrated into the desktop. Oh, I agree. I very much support

Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Hughes
I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in gnome svn and HAL. I would like to depend on it for gnome-power-manager, and I hate all the #ifdefs. Does anybody have any problems with

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in gnome svn and HAL. I would like to depend on it for

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Murray Cumming
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the patches are using PolicyKit-gnome, too. If we allow dependencies on PolicyKit, we should allow PolicyKit-gnome, too, since it makes it very easy to write UIs that trigger privileged operations and handle

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the patches are using PolicyKit-gnome, too. If we allow dependencies on PolicyKit, we should allow PolicyKit-gnome, too, since

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Hughes
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: s/2.26/2.24/ I guess? :-) I figured I was too late for 2.24 - if not, even better. Richard. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:27 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 07 mai 2008, à 16:18 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in gnome svn and

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:29 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in gnome svn and HAL. I would like to depend on it for gnome-power-manager, and I hate all the #ifdefs. Does anybody have any problems

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think it is a problem for PolicyKit to be an external dependency for GNOME. However, there will probably be people at Sun working to #ifdef out PolicyKit code in the modules that tend to get shipped with

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Jason: If Sun wants to do something completely different from what the rest of the community is doing, it seems like the responsibility for bearing the consequences of that course of action should lay squarely on the shoulders of Sun's engineering teams. Understood. I was not really