| [technology-pmc] Fwd: [CQ 5195] New: policykit Version: 0.98 and up |
Greetings PMC members. Linux Tools is asking for a "works with"
declaration on policykit. I believe that it meets the criteria on
the grounds thatThe Eclipse software does not require the third party software to be present. If the thirdhttp://eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf Your votes please. Wayne -------- Original Message --------
http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5195 Summary: policykit Version: 0.98 and up Product: technology Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: new Status: NEW Keywords: nonepl, source, unmodified Severity: new Priority: P3 Component: technology.linux-distros AssignedTo: emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: genie@xxxxxxxxxxx CC: emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx, jjohnstn@xxxxxxxxxx Committer: Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@xxxxxxxxxx https://foundation.eclipse.org/people/people_edit.php?PersonID=jjohnston Project: technology.linux-distros http://foundation.eclipse.org/projects/projects_edit.php?ProjectID=technology.linux-distros Name: policykit Version: 0.98 and up Description: This is a \"works-with\" request to use Policy Kit with the Linux Tools OProfile plug-in. Currently the OProfile plug-in uses consolehelper to invoke the OProfile opcontrol binary which requires root access. Using consolehelper to indirectly reference opcontrol requests the root password and then invokes the desired binary. Unfortunately, consolehelper is being phased out and its replacement is policyKit which is currently available on all modern Linux systems where OProfile can be run. The change is to add two new scripts that add/remove a policy file (new) for the opcontrol binary. A root password is required to run the install script as was the case to run the old install script for using consolehelper. There is currently a fall-back script to set-up use of sudo to invoke opcontrol and this script will remain as-is. The plug-in code requires no alteration and is not dependent on which script is ultimately run by the end-user. The old consolehelper install/uninstall scripts will be renamed but still available for use. The policyKit versions will become the recommended install/uninstall scripts in the documentation. If policyKit does not exist on the user\'s system, the old consolehelper set-up script or the fall-back sudo script can still be used. Thus, the plug-in does not require policyKit to run. All added scripts will be EPL licensed. PolicyKit itself is LGPL but the code does not link to it. The OProfile plug-in will invoke the opcontrol binary it finds that is installed by which script the end-user runs. In the policyKit case, this is a script that uses pkexec to run /usr/bin/opcontrol. pkexec is a command installed by policyKit. Cryptography: No License(s): GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) Project URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit Source URL: -- Configure CQmail: http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the CQ. You are watching someone on the CC list of the CQ. |