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Bug 502801 - switch to using PolicyKit
Summary: switch to using PolicyKit
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sbackup
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Filipe Rosset
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 502765
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-27 09:19 UTC by Rahul Sundaram
Modified: 2014-03-19 00:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2014-03-19 00:52:02 UTC
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 09:19:33 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 12:53:21 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 20:18:52 UTC 
Added 'FutureFeature' keyword to avoid rawhide base
Comment 3 Christoph Wickert 2009-11-26 19:55:28 UTC 
I will take care of this.
Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2009-11-27 12:08:48 UTC 
Hmm, I thought it was trivial, just change the launchers to "pkexec simple-backup-config" and "pkexec simple-restore-gnome", but this doesn't work because pkexec does not keep the environment, so the display cannot be opened. mclasen told me this is intended, pkexec is not for GUI apps. See 
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17970#c15

The switch to polkit will require major changes in the code. Reassigning to Simon, he will talk to upstream and then decide what to do.
Comment 5 Simon 2009-11-27 13:42:32 UTC 
I had the same problem before...

I thought it was my fault. The documentation couldn't help me. Imho the Documentation isn't good!
Comment 6 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-11-24 09:14:18 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 7 Mario Ceresa 2012-12-21 09:43:38 UTC 
Sorry, I'm not using sbackup anymore!

Best,
Mario
Comment 9 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-02-21 01:15:36 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 10 Filipe Rosset 2014-03-19 00:52:02 UTC 
retiring sbackup https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5869
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