FS#40072 - [geoclue2] Whitelist gnome-maps in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Richard Klemm (klemster) - Thursday, 24 April 2014, 17:50 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 25 April 2014, 18:08 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
I was wondering why my geolocation in gnome-maps was always locating me at the center of Berlin, even though I'm living not even close to the center.
A look at https://location.services.mozilla.com/map did seem to have some data available at my location and I made sure of this by collecting new data.

I came across /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf;
had a quick glance at the syntax and added

[gnome-maps]
allowed=true
users=

to it.
After a reboot ( I guess systemctl restart geoclue.service would be could enough, too)

I'm getting a pretty good localization.

Can this be done automatically by the install script, given that geoclue is installed?
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Friday, 25 April 2014, 18:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 25 April 2014, 05:46 GMT
Having a package modify a file from another package is bad. This would need to be done in the geoclue2 package, so I'm re-titleing the report. Since that file comes from upstream, though, you should really be talking to them.