On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it, > I've done the work to upgrade the polkit package to 0.107. I've tested > this package locally. The main value of this upgrade (for me at least) > is systemd integration, including proper systemd-style bus activation. Unfortunately, enabling systemd support removes consolekit support, screwing over everyone not running systemd. > This now wants a dedicated user and group, by default 'polkitd'. I > re-used 102, which was listed as 'policykit' in the UID/GID database. > Hopefully it really was unused. The build depends on this user and group > already being present (otherwise 'make install' fails to chown some > directories, and polkitd fails to read them and dies). Ah, that sucks. Any suggestions on how to handle this when building in clean chroots? > It now depends on 'js', which I added. Addition of one more 8 MB dep > doesn't seem a problem. > > As we now have pambase, the shipped pam config, which just uses > system-auth, is useful to us. I removed the old, locally written, pam > file. > > Let me know if you'd rather I put this patch in the bugtracker.
