30-keymap-olpc.fdi move from hal-info considered harmful?

Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 13:44:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin Dengler
<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> Sayamindu, rwh, and Team OLPC,
>
> Please reconsider the resolution of
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514081 .  Currently the
> resolution of this bug -- moving the file from the hal-info rpm to the
> olpc-utils rpm -- means olpc-utils must be installed for the
> 30-keymap-olpc.fdi file mapping the XO-1{,.5} keys to be installed.
>
> The problem with this is that olpc-utils brings in a raft of changes
> that are inappropriate for non-OLPC installs of Fedora.  For example,
> the "olpc" user is assumed to exist, its homedir is written to, and
> olpc-dm is installed as the default display manager with the user
> "olpc" as the auto-login user.  This breaks X startup unless the olpc
> user exists.
>
> Is there a better resolution that allows XO-1 keys to be recognised
> on a F12 timeframe without olpc-utils's other changes?
>
> Perhaps just putting the latest 30-keymap-olpc.fdi from
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-utils/plain/etc/hal/fdi/information/30-keymap-olpc.fdi
> back into the hal-info package?
>


I guess now that the keys are working in both XO-1 and 1.5, we can
submit two different files (or a single file if possible) to upstream
HAL. Does that make sense ?

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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