Robby, please don't remove pmount from the 12.2 repo.

I find it really useful, as a fluxbox user ; all I had to do to use it on my 
old laptop is populate /etc/pmount.allow with;
/etc/sda[123]
/etc/sdb[123]
/etc/hdc

Is that too much for the average Joe ?

A note in the README, e.g.:
For now removable devices are not recognized ;  please populate 
/etc/pmount.allow with a list of your removables devices - see man pmount
will suffice

Thanks,

Didier

Le Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:13:52 Phillip Warner, vous avez écrit :
> pmount does not *fully* work in Slackware 12.2 no matter what version of 
> pmount you use (as of this date).  I was just saying that if it is removed 
> from the 12.2 repo, people could still get the SlackBuild from the 12.1 repo 
> if they don't mind having to use pmount.allow to list a range of removable 
> devices.
> 
> I think pmount still works perfectly fine (completely) if you use a kernel 
> from Slackware 12.1 (or near equivalent kernel version).  It might also work 
> better with a custom kernel with some different sysfs options.  None of this 
> is in SW 12.2 so it does not really matter here.
> 
> --phillip
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Robby Workman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Robby Workman <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] pmount fails in Slackware 12.2
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 1:02 PM
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:45:57 -0800 (PST)
> > Phillip Warner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't think this is something that can be fixed
> > with a small
> > > patch.  From what I gather, it'd take a major
> > rewrite of pmount or a
> > > custom kernel setup (I haven't looked through the
> > source to confirm
> > > this).  The SlackBuild maintainer, Guillermo, is
> > looking into the
> > > issue as well.
> > > 
> > > The software is still useful, however, as you can use
> > globs to
> > > whitelist a range of devices (external and internal)
> > in
> > > pmount.allow.  Perhaps until the issue is resolved a
> > note in the
> > > README can be added specifying to use globs in
> > pmount.allow.
> > > Although, if people want to use it they *could* just
> > get it from the
> > > 12.1 repo.
> > 
> > 
> > Hrm, so that version still works?
> > 
> > -RW
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