Bug 691746

Summary:	sci-geosciences/gpsd should be adjusted for uucp/dialout group change
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tor Rune Skoglund <trs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sci-geo Project <sci-geosciences>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	trs, udev-bugs, zerochaos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	667410
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Description Tor Rune Skoglund 2019-08-08 15:49:46 UTC

tty devices are created with GROUP="dialout" in 242, by the rules from /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules. The specific line is:

KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|ttymxc[0-9]*|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout"

This is a change since e.g. 239, where GROUP="uucp". 

This change breaks at least the current version GPSD, which expect any GPS devices to be in the "uucp" group.

It could be that the change is intended. In that case, this is rather a sci-geosciences/gpsd-3.17-r2 bug.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2019-08-08 15:54:14 UTC

Indeed, the change is intentional. I don't want to carry the patch anymore.

Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2020-07-29 02:47:44 UTC

Fixed in gpsd-3.20