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

Fri Apr 13 18:40:20 CEST 2012

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/
+