[Slackbuilds-users] libgaminggear udev patch for non default GROUP

Gerardo Zamudio gerardo.zamudio at linux.com
Fri Oct 11 14:14:19 UTC 2019


On Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:40:52 PM CDT King Beowulf wrote:
> Hello Gerardo
> 
> Since you have libgaminggear buildscript with the line
> 
> GROUP=${GROUP:-uinput-users}
> 
> resulting in some users assuming that they can use a different GROUP.  I
> suggest applying the edit from the patch below to adjust 90-uiput.rules
> to allow for a different group.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> *********************************************************
> 
> ---
> /data/slackware/builds/libraries/libgaminggear/libgaminggear.SlackBuild.old
> +++ /data/slackware/builds/libraries/libgaminggear/libgaminggear.SlackBuild
> @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
>  # setup udev rules for uinput and uhid modules
>  mkdir -p $PKG/lib/udev/rules.d
>  install -m 644 $CWD/90-uinput.rules $PKG/lib/udev/rules.d/
> +# In case the default group was changed:
> +if [ "$GROUP" != "uinput-users" ]; then
> +    sed -i "s|uinput-users|$GROUP|g" $PKG/lib/udev/rules.d/90-uinput.rules
> +fi
> 
>  mkdir -p $PKG/install
>  cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
> 
> *********************************************************

Thanks for the suggestion. You are right. I will submit this patch for the 
next batch of updates. I will make the README more clear about this, too.

Regards,
Gerardo Zamudio
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