Halevt: A replacement for ivman
It’s been a while since kargig and I worked together to bring sys-apps/halevt to Gentoo portage tree. To be honest, I didn’t quite use it, since all of my PCs where configured to use ivman, so I was too lazy to do any changes. However, due to the upcoming removal of ivman, I decided to migrate all of my PCs to halevt. The migration was quite smooth except a minor ( or major, depends on your point of view ) issue; Removal devices such us USB disks or external HDDs, were mounted just fine, but regular users didn’t have write access to them. Digging around, I found this post on Gentoo forums. What I had to do was to replace every
exec=”halevt-mount -u $hal.udi$ -o sync -m 002″
to
exec=”halevt-mount -s”
It seems to me that the default conf file that gets installed with halevt is rather useless for normal users because they are unable to write on external devices. If you feel like I should ship another configuration file, optimized for your needs, I am willing to hear your suggestions and come up with a rather convenient file :)
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Hi, did you tried http://github.com/mgorny/uam/ ? hal is deprecated and everyone try to migrate to udev or some lib that uses just udev. I would love to see uam in portage, right now it is in sunrise overlay.
Yeah I know. The developer of this project will be Gentoo developer soonish so he will move this package to portage :-)