Re: external dependencies

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> OK... I will am willing to exercise hal-0.5.8 within GARNOME-2.16.x.
> Where do I find PolicyKit 

Suggest to build with --disable-policy-kit. Yes, I know there's a big
fat warning but at this point in the game, the only controversial thing
this allows desktop users to mount volumes from fixed drives (e.g.
non-hotpluggable drives not using removable media, e.g. normal hard
disks). If you think this is too dangerous [1], you can use this patch

 http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/hal/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi?rev=1.1

For HAL 0.5.9 we'll be adding methods that are much more controversial
and will surely require the user to auth before we carry them out (such
as editing partition tables, formatting disks etc. etc.).

Otherwise, if you're feeling lucky, just pull PolicyKit from git from
here

 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=tree

There are no official releases yet. I think the distros that currently
ship PolicyKit (I know only one, and that's in the development stream
and it's not Fedora as it's frozen for FC6) ship git snapshots. Btw, I
plan to put out a PolicyKit release somewhat soon (within a month or
so), in fact I'm meeting with Dan Williams tomorrow to figure out what
NetworkManager needs from to e.g. securely lock down what wireless
networks a user can connect to etc. etc.

> and libvolume_id?

This comes with recent udev releases. Suggest to just ask users to
install it (it's libvolume_id-devel on Fedora) much like they are asked
to provide glibc and other low-level development libraries etc.

HTH,
David

[1] : personally I don't, but in some way it makes sense in a general
purpose OS like e.g. Fedora Core. Anyway...