** Also affects: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Oracular)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Oracular)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Noble)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Oracular)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Oracular)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2089145
Title:
Backport patch to read actions from /etc and /run
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in policykit-1 source package in Noble:
In Progress
Status in policykit-1 source package in Oracular:
In Progress
Bug description:
Hey!
I would like to request a SRU of the following upstream PR for Noble.
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/499
I have applied this to ubuntu/noble-updates and produced a new patch
that is attached with identical changes. The PR does not apply
directly due to mismatch in a couple of lines that differ from
upstream.
[ Impact ]
On Ubuntu Core we've had not historically carried polkit before, it
has only recently been decided to include polkit into the Core24 base
(and future bases), so this has not been an issue up until now. The
decision changed as Core Desktop is moving its architecture to using
the official core24 base snap as their base for all the desktop snaps.
Core Desktop needs to use polkit for the desktop/user environment, but
this brings us to this request.
The polkit version currently in Noble does only support reading
actions from /usr/share/polkit-1/actions, but this is a protected
read-only path on Ubuntu Core. We could change this and map this path
into the writable area, but this would bring us into transition issues
when/if people want to migrate from core24 to core26 (i.e
remodelling), where newer polkit supports reading actions from /etc.
This would leave files in a weird state moving away from mapping that
path, to the more appropriate /etc.
The more sustainable plan is to SRU the mentioned patch, allowing
polkit to read actions from /etc, and would provide us with more
consistent behaviour moving forward with newer bases, that may contain
newer polkit versions that naturally support /etc.
[ Where problems could occur ]
* Think about what the upload changes in the software. Imagine the
change is wrong or breaks something else: how would this show up?
Since this is about loading actions, any issues resulting from this
change should show up immediately by identifying whether the actions
are loaded.
* It is assumed that any SRU candidate patch is well-tested before
upload and has a low overall risk of regression, but it's important
to make the effort to think about what ''could'' happen in the event
of a regression.
In case of a regression, actions from /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
would not be loaded either.
* This must never be "None" or "Low", or entirely an argument as to why
your upload is low risk.
I would indicate this is a 'Medium' in risk, as this code change is
very isolated. There is no functional or behavioural changes. This is
specifically the places we load configuration / actions from.
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