Bug 632508

Summary:	dev-util/android-tools - Executing adb as non-root user fails without 80-android.rules from android-sdk-update-manager.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	anonymous <fakih18716>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flow, kripton, marcec, powerman-asdf, rich0
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27588
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Description anonymous 2017-09-30 12:52:39 UTC

If I execute `adb devices` from android-tools as root, it detects devices.
If I execute it as a non-root user, it fails because only root can access android devices.

80-android.rules from android-sdk-update-manager solves that problem by assigning android group to android device files.

A non-root user simply has to add itself to android group to access android devices.

Should android-tools add 80-android.rules, too?
Should android-tools be allowed to co-exist with android-sdk-update-manager?

Comment 1 anonymous 2017-09-30 12:55:04 UTC

Can this issue be solved by modifying gentoo wiki rather than gentoo packages?

Comment 2 anonymous 2017-09-30 21:16:47 UTC

What about putting 80-android.rules in a separate package and making android-tools and android-sdk-update-manager depend on it?

I got the idea from https://github.com/M0Rf30/android-udev-rules

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-10-28 20:48:18 UTC

Having a common android-udev-rules package sounds good to me.

Comment 4 anonymous 2022-07-28 00:53:18 UTC

I don't use adb anymore, but I may leave this open for other people.

Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2022-10-09 19:34:48 UTC

The android-tools package now depends on android-udev-rules:

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27588