Bug 92915

Summary:	GeoClue is a mystery to integrate: Include rules for polkit please
Product:	GeoClue	Reporter:	Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	bigon
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Tristan Van Berkom 2015-11-12 11:25:34 UTC

It seems that debian is rolling it's own geoclue-2.0.rules and installing it into /usr/share/polkit-d/rules.d

When building a system from scratch, geoclue just has no chance of working without this essential file being installed.

Why is this hidden away in some obscure location ? It would be much less of a mystery to integrate geoclue if the polkit rules were installed with a simple make install.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2015-11-12 11:28:00 UTC

(In reply to Tristan Van Berkom from comment #0)
> It seems that debian is rolling it's own geoclue-2.0.rules and installing it
> into /usr/share/polkit-d/rules.d
> 
> When building a system from scratch, geoclue just has no chance of working
> without this essential file being installed.

It's not needed. There are no polkit checks in geoclue itself. It's a debian problem (and it would be good if there was an upstream bug with discussions about this).

Comment 2 Laurent Bigonville 2015-11-12 11:37:47 UTC

The polkit rule has been added in debian because modemmanager is compiled in "strict" mode and block locations request by default.

As stated in the debian/changelog file:

  * [8d8c2fe3] Add polkit rules and pkla files to allow geoclue to query
               a modem location (Closes: #765184)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765184

Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2015-11-12 17:01:15 UTC

Well, until MM devs implement this:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85036

I'm afraid you're going to have to be doing what you are currently doing in debian.

Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2015-11-21 14:16:15 UTC

*** Bug 93026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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