On 12.11.2012 18:46, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: gnome-control-center > Version: 1:3.6.2-1 > Severity: normal > > When running under systemd, the machine's hostname can be seen on the > Details tab. However, it cannot be changed. > According to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679281 the hostname > is only editable if policykit reports that the set-hostname PK action > is allowed without prompting. > > The solution chosen upstream was to install > panels/common/gnome-control-center.rules, which allows setting the hostname > without prompting if the user is in the wheel group. (Our equivalent would > be the sudo group.) > > This comes up as this warning from list-missing during build: > > -./usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gnome-control-center.rules > > Possible solutions include: > > * do what upstream did, patching the file to require sudo instead of wheel > * add some way to issue a PK prompt, and deliberately omit the .rules file > * accept that the hostname cannot be changed in this way, and deliberately > omit the .rules file > > Ideally, "deliberately omit the .rules file" means "delete it in debian/rules" > (which shuts up the warning, and acts as documentation that it is deliberate). > > I haven't installed panels/common/gnome-control-center.rules, and haven't > added a makefile rule to delete the file either, because I didn't > want to make this policy decision without consulting the rest of the team. >
Please be aware that .rules files are for newer versions of polkit (which are javascript based [1]). The version in wheezy/sid uses .pkla files. Thus simply installing the file will not help unless we upgrade polkit too, but. That file could be translated to a corresponding .pkla file, though. [1] http://davidz25.blogspot.de/2012/06/authorization-rules-in-polkit.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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