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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-11-13 01:31:16 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-11-13 01:31:16 -0500 |
| commit | b360367d400735a46c98f0fc0a604b479c19a1b2 (patch) | |
| tree | fb299687d98405fd1902fecf4b9a30404894ef23 /packaging | |
| parent | 58f23c6e2b2f3778fcf86cc5783c0977e45fa87f (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-b360367d400735a46c98f0fc0a604b479c19a1b2.tar.gz | |
More hints for packagers.
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| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/readme.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/readme.txt b/packaging/readme.txt index d6651774..1fa13e2f 100644 --- a/packaging/readme.txt +++ b/packaging/readme.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ in desktop packaging. Usable deb and RPM specifications have their own subdirectories here. Our package files want to set up a hotplug script to notify gpsd when a potential GPS device goes active and should be polled. The -goal is zero configuration; users should never have to tell gpsd how -to configure itself. +goal is zero configuration; users should *never* have to tell gpsd how +to set itself up. Bluetooth has a requirement to be able to write to the gpsd control socket from a userland device manager. Accordingly, you probably @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ figures out which group it should move to by looking at the ownership of a prototypical tty (look in gpsd.c for this code) but the owning user and group can be compiled in with build-system options. -Make sure whatever group gpsd lands in has dialout access - otherwise -your users will see myerious failures. +Make *sure* whatever group gpsd lands in after privilege-dropping has +dialout access - otherwise your users will see mysterious failures +which they will wrongly attribute to GPSD itself. // end |