On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:46 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> sorry I'm a bit slow at trying this out atm...
>
No problem - many thanks for your comprehensive analysis.
> First thing: config/config.xml is still listed in setup.py - I think
> it's change to config/syncengine.conf.xml and where is it supposed to go
> now? /etc? I'm happy if you leave it out of setup.py, then the distro
> can do it.
>
Mea culpa! Again :)
Not being a packager I tend to forget setup.py. I'll change this in the
next bunch of commits I have planned. That is right - it should go
in /etc to form the systemwide config.
> > There will be no change in functionality, but I have altered a debug
> > message to highlight the absolute path to the authorization tool. The
> > line 'auth: auth prog INTERNAL_GUI does not exist' should now read
> > 'auth: auth prog <filename> does not exist'. Can you check whether
> > <filename> is present on your system and let me know the result?
>
> It says:
>
> auth: auth prog
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/../tools/authgui.py does not exist
>
> and there is no authgiu.py installed anywhere. Is this a packaging
> thing?
>
It should be installed. It resides in 'tools'. Maybe this is not the
best place to put it as it is strictly called from sync-engine and not a
tool that can be called directly from the CLI, although it is a separate
program in its own right.
> I added
> 'tools/authgui.py',
> to setup.py, which installed it into /usr/bin (not sure if this is the
> right way), then changed AuthMethod in /etc/syncengine.conf.xml to
> <AuthMethod>/usr/bin/authgui.py</AuthMethod>
>
> But I see this from sync-engine:
> 2008-06-05 11:36:14,699 INFO engine.config.Config : UpdateConfig - unable to
> open system config file - using defaults
> 2008-06-05 11:36:14,699 INFO engine.config.Config : UpdateConfig - unable to
> open system config file - using defaults
> 2008-06-05 11:36:14,701 INFO engine.syncengine.kernel : device IO2 connected
> 2008-06-05 11:36:14,702 INFO engine.syncengine.kernel : ProcessAuth :
> processing authorization for device 'IO2'
> auth: auth prog
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/../tools/authgui.py does not exist
>
> I checked the permissions on /etc/syncengine.conf.xml, and its readable
> by everyone. I checked config.py and it seems to be building the
> path /etc/syncengine.conf.xml.
>
> Finally I copied authgui.py
> to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/../tools/authgui.py and
> ran sync-engine again. This time it worked - popping up the gui.
>
> So in summarising, these are the questions I'm left with:
> 1. Where should syncengine.conf.xml go
The systemwide file in /etc and the user file in ~/.synce
> 2. Where should the internal authgui.py go
At the moment it sits in 'tools' and sync-engine expects it there. The
fact it is not installed sounds like a packaging problem combined with
the hardcoded relative path in sync-engine.
Packagers: Can any of the packagers reading this tell me where you would
prefer to place it? I can then adapt sync-engine to be able to see it.
>From the point of view of the source tree I think I will move it from
tools as it does not fit into the category of 'tools' as such.
> 3. Why did I see "unable to open system config file"
Normally should be because you don't have syncengine.conf.xml in /etc.
But you do :) So I should be able to repeat this problem and fix it.
> 4. Even without the internal auth gui, I was using synce-gnome to
> authenticate - why didn't sync-engine like this?
I will have to investigate this. If sync-engine sees a pre-authenticated
device it should not try to re-authenticate. I am a kde user and do not
use gnome - could you elaborate on how synce-gnome authenticates (from a
user's perspective? I may pick up some clues from this.
John.
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