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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:19:10 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: polkit not running after update
Message-ID:  <5b7f4299-700b-bc5a-ae7e-7469c4bc7e15@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <20210127081340.57349879@comet2.terra.ger>
References:  <20210118112011.70fa6542@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> <f2577bf3-8690-0a54-789f-97f37514166a@madpilot.net> <20210118115818.400403af@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> <21641b51-cd84-9ed6-6d0c-371efbc0b896@madpilot.net> <20210118124434.49a1384d@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> <17139905-fccb-e22a-7643-32fb15c2215b@madpilot.net> <20210126162117.076bae4e@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de> <5ad02a82-e17e-0399-8c92-b8590beef1cf@madpilot.net> <20210127081340.57349879@comet2.terra.ger>

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On 27/01/21 08:13, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:29:14 +0100
> Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:
> 
>>> ---
>>> [1/1] Extracting polkit-0.118: 100%
>>> You may need to manually remove
>>> /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf if
>>> it is no longer needed.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> And indeed, the file is gone again. So the state of the system
>>> above was as designed (whithout the file), but it didn't work for
>>> me. So something's fishy here. Either the system should work
>>> without the file, or the message is wrong.
> 
>> That message is a standard message from pkg about configuration
>> files. Any file marked as a configuration file in the port will
>> trigger that message when the port is removed (upgrading entails
>> removing the port and reinstalling).
> 
> So printing this under "extracting" is misleading, and the message is
> rather caused before when deinstalling the old package version?

You can file a bug report/change request in pkg repo on github if you 
think this should be changed.

> 
>> pkg should leave the file there and only modify the .sample one on
>> upgrade. It simply informs you you can remove configuration files for
>> software you no longer use.
>>
>> Don't know why you end up missing the file. It should definitely be
>> there and is needed as long as you use polkit.
> 
> It is reproducible for me. This file isn't installed when installing
> the port.

Same ass above.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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