On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 16:49 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 09:49 +0000, Mark Ellis wrote: > > > It needs looking into, but that's why configure has the > > --with-hal-addon-dir option. Distros fiddle so much that it can't be > > perfect, and you can't guarantee that the configured hal libdir is the > > same as synce-hal libdir. I'm afraid packagers need to start looking at > > the configure options available. What hal really needs is perhaps a > > pkgconfig variable fir this. > > Still, I don't see why the default value for this should be one that > deviates from upstream code. > > At least Mandriva, Fedora and Slackware stick with the upstream values > on this. > > It would perhaps be useful if users of other distros (particularly SUSE, > Debian and Ubuntu) could run the test: > > hald --daemon=no 2>&1 | grep 'allowed paths' > > and see what it returns for them.
Ubuntu (and I would expect Debian :- Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' Ah, now I see what they've done. /usr/lib/hal is libexecdir for hal on deb based. I've changed this so often I'm getting downright sick of it, aaaahhhhh ! I'll add it my ever increasing list..... Actually I'm tempted to make using the configure option mandatory, maybe. Ta Mark
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