Bug 502726

Summary:	switch to using PolicyKit
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	bacula	Assignee:	Andreas Thienemann <andreas>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	andreas, fschwarz, gwync, mclasen, mmcgrath, negativo17, paul, smohan
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Bug Blocks:	502765

Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 04:17:04 UTC

Description of problem:

usermode/consolehelper is deprecated since Fedora has a better framework now
called PolicyKit. Please switch to using that instead

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2009-05-27 10:47:26 UTC

Setting up consolehelper is well documented here and elsewhere:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-access-console-enable.html

Where is the equivalent for PolicyKit?

Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 10:53:22 UTC

Upstream should be pointed to

http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-0.91/docs/

Comment 3 Andreas Thienemann 2009-05-27 11:06:07 UTC

Quoting from http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-0.91/docs/PolicyKit-1.8.html

"TODO: This manual page should contain a simple introduction to PolicyKit for a system administrator audience. Remains to be written."

I think I'm going to pass...

Rahul: Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in PolicyKit for now. I'm tending to close this WONTFIX or NOTABUG for now. We might revisit this in the future. It is my understanding that right now PolicyKit is pretty much Gnome-centric while the Bacula userbase is not. I'd like to prevent potential conflicts.

Comment 4 Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 11:10:27 UTC

PolicyKit is a very generic API with both glib and qt bindings. Of course, since this is a console app, it might not be that useful to move over. I will let you make the decision.

Comment 5 John Poelstra 2009-06-08 20:18:28 UTC

Added 'FutureFeature' keyword to avoid rawhide base

Comment 6 Simone Caronni 2012-07-18 09:22:46 UTC

Current Bacula (5.2.x) in Fedora 17 and rawhide do not use consolehelper anymore for bat.