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FS#9273 - bluez-utils support for networking

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg) - Sunday, 20 January 2008, 06:39 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 24 January 2008, 16:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

bluez-utils in Arch currently does not have support for bluetooth input devices, hal support and bluetooth networking using pand.
blueman is a GUI bluetooth management tool that I plan to move into [community] soon. However, some of the features won't work with the current bluez-utils (like networking).
Adding --enable-serial --enable-hal --enable-glib --enable-network solves this. (however bringing in some extra depends/makedepends)
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 16:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  I'm closing this now. Please file another feature request if more features are needed.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 20 January 2008, 10:20 GMT
Bluetooth HID (Input) and networking with pand are enabled in bluez-utils. Bluetooth serial ports (rfcomm) are also supported. I have to look into hal though, which seems to be missing like you claim.
Comment by Loic Nageleisen (lloeki) - Monday, 21 January 2008, 13:38 GMT
I too would like to heavily back this feature request.

please note that we're talking about services here, NOT daemons like e.g /usr/bin/hidd. those services are described via '.service' files in /etc/bluetooth and need some libs created that implement the kind of functionality the daemons provide. this allows for dbus query, control and use of such services, e.g via the gnome bluetooth applet.

currently there's only audio available (--enable-audio), but with '--enable-input --enable-network --enable-serial' we can have those too.
also, --enable-hal allows (among others) for some devices to be properly enumerated by hal.

please note that those configure options may add more dependencies, but they are only build time deps, so this doesn't have any impact on anything afterwards.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 21 January 2008, 14:36 GMT
I don't care about additional (make)depends in bluetooth utils. Bluetooth supports many features, thus it is only natural that there are many dependencies. However, some of them can be made optional dependencies.

I can look at this later today, thanks for your explanation.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 09:59 GMT
Can you please try bluez-utils-3.24-2 and check if everything is there now?
Comment by Loic Nageleisen (lloeki) - Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 13:12 GMT
seems good to me.

as usage goes on, there may be others to add in the future (like --enable-sync, dependent on opensync) but I can't test them so I restricted myself to mentioning the most used ones.

whatever, I think we can consider this one done for.

with many thanks.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 13:20 GMT
What capabilities would opensync support add to bluez?
Comment by Loic Nageleisen (lloeki) - Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 14:43 GMT
I suppose it's related to syncml.
Comment by Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg) - Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 19:44 GMT
Thanks! It is working good here.

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