Putting Flumotion into Fedora 4

[Per Bjornsson]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:49 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 12/14/2004 10:11:51 AM, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140853
> >
> 
> >From the Bugzilla -
> 
> >> We are wondering if the correct solution is for Fedora to set up a  
> >> new
> >> group, called media for instance, which also had the rights to  
> >> access
> >> the hardware.

Maybe "multimedia"? The "media" word got so overloaded when CD-ROMs
started getting mounted in /media/cdrom etc...

> I would agree with that - the only alternative I could think of is to  
> have %post sed the console.perms file, but I don't think I personally  
> would like an rpm that changes existing settings in there.

Doesn't that sound like a complete and utter disaster? Permissions
changing willy-nilly depending on what you happen to install? And what
if the administrator actually wants to do something site-specific there
- I think that having local configuration in the console.perms seems
somewhat sane, doesn't it?

> That would also benefit other apps that might need the devices when  
> user not logged in at console as well, and should be just as secure if  
> no users belong to the group if flumotion is not installed.
> 
> I personally always change my console.perms for /dev/dsp anyway so I  
> can have cron record my favorite radio show while I'm at school - I  
> expect others as well do this sort of thing already anyway for similar  
> situations.

Absolutely. Think e.g. PVR applications - well, I guess that's pretty
much what your cron job is at the moment in some sense! ;) OK, so there
aren't any PVRs included in Fedora Core, but it would be som much easier
to get this done right if the core includes the potential to do it and
it's _very_ hard to do it in a non-hacky way without universal buy-in.

I don't think I understand Bill's comment in the bugzilla report about
the problems with the group solution - why could a new group not be
added on a distro upgrade?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140853#c6

Cheers,
Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University