[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release udisks-glue-1.3.4-2.mga2

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 13 April 2012 17:53, dams <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org> wrote:
> Description :
> udisks-glue is a tool that can associate udisks events to user-defined
> actions. In that sense, udisks-glue is almost "glue code"[1], hence the name.
>
> udisks (formely known as DeviceKit-disks) is an abstraction layer on top of
> the Linux disks subsystems that, in conjunction with the other DeviceKit
> subprojects, aims to be a replacement for the now almost defunct HAL project.
>
> Like most other recent Linux desktop frameworks, udisks exposes its API via
> DBus to its clients (often desktop environments). Users wishing to have more
> control about what happens when specific disk-related events often have to use
> a tool like halevt[2] or ivmon[3], which work on top of HAL. Now that HAL is
> no longer being actively developed and most distributions are considering
> dropping support for it, those users will have to migrate to a new tool, and
> udisks-glue might as well fill that gap.

the following has nothing to do in descriptions (as well as [1] .. [3] above)

> udisks-glue should eventually offer the most useful features found in the
> aforementioned projects. As of now, however, only the most basic functionality
> is available (mounting and unmounting removable media). Contributions are
> welcome.
>
> Note that this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the udisks
> project.
>
> References:
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue_code
> [2]: http://www.nongnu.org/halevt/
> [3]: http://ivman.sourceforge.net/