Bug 502806 - switch to using PolicyKit
Summary: switch to using PolicyKit
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: backintime
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: hannes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-27 09:23 UTC by Rahul Sundaram
Modified: 2016-02-29 11:10 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-02-29 11:10:52 UTC
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 09:23:57 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 Simon 2009-05-28 12:53:17 UTC 
I'm tending to close this as "won't fix" or "not a bug"

(In reply to comment #0)
> Fedora has a better framework now called PolicyKit. 
Is it really better? It's sound like PackageKit and PackageKit isn't a good thing!

I see no advantage for a switch to policykit right now. Let's talk about this in a few months or in a few releases.
Comment 2 John Poelstra 2009-06-08 20:18:57 UTC 
Added 'FutureFeature' keyword to avoid rawhide base
Comment 3 Tim Jackson 2012-07-21 20:20:05 UTC 
Having followed the Fedora feature link, looked briefly at the PolicyKit documentation and searched online for things like "PolicyKit usermode porting guide", I'm still none the wiser about how a packager migrates a working application from usermode/consolehelper to PolicyKit.

Can you offer any links to reasonably straightforward guides on how to do this that don't involve becoming a PolicyKit expert?
Comment 5 Christopher Meng 2013-09-26 04:19:53 UTC 
Hi Rahul.

How can we switch to using PK?

Any howto available?
Comment 6 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-12-24 00:48:40 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 7 germar.reitze 2015-09-28 16:57:41 UTC 
I changed BackInTime to PolicyKit upstream in version 1.1.0
Current version at time of writing is 1.1.6
Comment 8 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-02-19 18:13:47 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 9 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-02-19 21:40:32 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 10 Raphael Groner 2016-02-28 22:30:24 UTC 
Has this bug still any relevance, or can we close?
Comment 11 germar.reitze 2016-02-28 22:36:43 UTC 
I fixed this upstream. So if you upgraded to BIT >= 1.1.0 you can close this.
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