Re: Spin Approval

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On 12/05/2012 03:16 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 5 December 2012 10:34, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/05/2012 11:32 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:

On 12/04/2012 01:46 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:

Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2012, 08:29 +0100 schrieb Brendan Jones:

On 12/02/2012 10:11 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:


Is there a right way to do this?


Hi Brendan,

I'm afraid there is no really right way unless it gets configurable in
firstboot.

I tried to find one but I couldn't see
an option in kickstart to make this happen. I could probably provide a
patch to firstboot (I think this would be really useful) but obviously
it will be too late for this release.


It's definitely too late for this release and I doubt such a patch would
be accepted as it has no use case outside this spin.


Fair enough

Well, maybe a way to add further configuration to firstboot might be
generically useful, but either way too late for this release, and
would need to be subject to translation etc. anyway.

Alternatively we could add this to %post in jack-audio-connection-kit
but I'm not sure if this is considered safe in a critical-path package


It is not considered safe in *any* package. You must not own or modify
files that are owned by another package (unless of course your package
is a configuration utility and the file in question is a config file)
and if you absolutely have to, you have to do it in the inscript so that
the changes only apply to the live system but don't end up on the
installed system.


I meant creating the group in %post (not editing a file owned by
firstboot). But the problem of assigning group membership still remains.

Alternatively, we could package something which gets kicked off via
xdg/autostart that could detect this and request sudo priveledges to add
the X user to the group. All really messy and too late now.


The general question of how a spin might be customised while still
staying within Fedora is perhaps something that needs to go to the
devel list. I'll ask, I'm sure no-one there is at all busy right
now... ;)
Being able to do this is fairly important to a spin that aims to
present the best of audio tools to users. Plan B I suppose is a list
of post-install instructions on the wiki, but that doesn't really do
much for the stereotype of linux being a build-it-yourself system. It
may actually be damaging to release a spin that wasn't done right.

I do wonder if there's a systemd / seat based solution to this, will
raise that on the devel list.


When it comes to the spin, I'm thinking of making an program that is run on boot that checks to see if you are in the correct groups, probably going to add it to the jam-control app. Then it can ask the user if it wan't to join the audio/jackuser groups if the user is not a member


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