make polkit work

[宋文武]

IIUC, our `polkit' can't see actions/rules from other packages.
In NixOS[0], the hardcoded ${out}/share/polkit-1 is overwrited to
/var/run/current-system/sw/share/polkit-1, provided by system
packages.
Instead of take a similar path, 
can we make a proper patch which will be accepted upstream?

The goal: (polkit-service (list udisks))


[0] 
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/polkit/default.nix

Re: make polkit work

[Ludovic Courtès]

宋文武 iyzs...@gmail.com skribis:

 IIUC, our `polkit' can't see actions/rules from other packages.
 In NixOS[0], the hardcoded ${out}/share/polkit-1 is overwrited to
 /var/run/current-system/sw/share/polkit-1, provided by system
 packages.
 Instead of take a similar path, 
 can we make a proper patch which will be accepted upstream?

Yes, I think it would best to have it honor $POLKIT_RULES_PATH and
$POLKIT_ACTIONS_PATH.  Apparently this would have to be done in
src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendjsauthority.c and
src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

Could you try to do this?

Once we have this patch, we can start using it, and submit it upstream
for inclusion.

 The goal: (polkit-service (list udisks))

Yes, that sounds like the right approach.

Thanks for looking into this!

Ludo’.