Summary: | media-libs/libgphoto2 uses plugdev as group in it's udev rules.d file (?) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | goeland86 |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | goeland86, graphics+disabled, ssuominen |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
goeland86
2013-02-12 23:18:24 UTC
I am a plugdev member... but I am really unsure about Gentoo still requiring this group for some things, I am also unsure about if this plugdev requirement is consistent in the tree between different apps :/ (In reply to comment #1) > I am a plugdev member... but I am really unsure about Gentoo still requiring > this group for some things, I am also unsure about if this plugdev > requirement is consistent in the tree between different apps :/ Every package that uses group plugdev must create it on it's on. It's just a common name that stuck from when HAL was still in tree. HAL used to create it, not anymore. And I see enewgroup in libgphoto2's ebuild already. Then user should use polkit (and consolekit or systemd-logind) to get authorization on apps he is using, then belonging to group "plugdev" shouldn't be necessary -- long as the used application supports polkit! I don't see anything to do here. (In reply to comment #0) > Either this should be noted as part of the news items for udev 197, or > message when upgrading to udev 197 should explicitly convey news of changes > related to usb group/plugdev group. This isn't related to 197, or the upgrade in general. If libgphoto2's rules changed from "usb" to "plugdev" when libgphoto2 version changed, that might be different story, but is not related to udev itself. Futhermore, grepped every libgphoto2 ebuild in Portage and plugdev is used in every one of them. Nothing changed here in that regard. What may have changed is that your session is no longer active according to ConsoleKit or polkit otherwise failed: $ ck-list-sessions [ ... ] active = 'TRUE' [ ... ] And when libgphoto2 is used from eg. gvfs, polkit gives authorization without plugdev group I've come to the same conclusion as ssuominen; there is nothing for us (the udev maintainers) to do here. |