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Package updates.
Update to xine-lib-1.2.12.
Update to xterm-372.
Update to upower-v0.99.17.
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY upower-download-http "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/archive/v&upower-version;/upower-v&upower-version;.tar.bz2">
8 <!ENTITY upower-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY upower-md5sum "74b0e4ace3f3f72321d3651e12815c41">
10 <!ENTITY upower-size "136 KB">
11 <!ENTITY upower-buildsize "5.0 MB (add 0.4 MB for tests)">
12 <!ENTITY upower-time "less than 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4, add 0.4 SBU for tests)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="upower" xreflabel="UPower-&upower-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="upower.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <date>$Date$</date>
20 </sect1info>
21
22 <title>UPower-&upower-version;</title>
23
24 <indexterm zone="upower">
25 <primary sortas="a-UPower">UPower</primary>
26 </indexterm>
27
28 <sect2 role="package">
29 <title>Introduction to UPower</title>
30
31 <para>
32 The <application>UPower</application> package provides an interface for
33 enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history
34 and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the
35 org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus.
36 </para>
37
38 &lfs111_checked;
39
40 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
41 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&upower-download-http;"/>
45 </para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>
49 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&upower-download-ftp;"/>
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download MD5 sum: &upower-md5sum;
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Download size: &upower-size;
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Estimated disk space required: &upower-buildsize;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 Estimated build time: &upower-time;
70 </para>
71 </listitem>
72 </itemizedlist>
73
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">UPower Dependencies</bridgehead>
75
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
77 <para role="required">
78 <xref linkend="libgudev"/>,
79 <xref linkend="libusb"/>, and
80 <xref linkend="polkit"/>
81 </para>
82
83 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
84 <para role="optional">
85 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
86 </para>
87
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
89 <para role="optional">
90 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
91 <xref linkend="pygobject3"/>,
92 <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/>,
93 <xref linkend="umockdev"/> (for part of the test suite), and
94 <ulink url="https://libimobiledevice.org/">libimobiledevice</ulink>
95 </para>
96
97 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
98 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/upower"/>
99 </para>
100 </sect2>
101
102 <sect2 role="kernel" id="upower-kernel" revision="systemd">
103 <!-- With UPower-0.9.11's hardening of the systemd unit file,
104 User Namespace Support (CONFIG_USER_NS) is now required. Without this,
105 you will get "ERROR 213/USER" out of a 'systemctl start upower'. -->
106 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
107
108 <para>
109 Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the
110 kernel if necessary:
111 </para>
112
113 <screen><literal>General Setup ---&gt;
114 [*] Namespaces support ---&gt; [CONFIG_NAMESPACES]
115 [*] User namespace [CONFIG_USER_NS]</literal></screen>
116
117 <indexterm zone="upower upower-kernel">
118 <primary sortas="d-upower">upower</primary>
119 </indexterm>
120 </sect2>
121
122 <sect2 role="installation">
123 <title>Installation of UPower</title>
124
125 <para>
126 Install <application>UPower</application> by running the following
127 commands:
128 </para>
129
130<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>sed '/subdir.*doc/d' -i meson.build &amp;&amp;
131mkdir build &amp;&amp;
132cd build &amp;&amp;
133meson --prefix=/usr \
134 --buildtype=release \
135 -Dgtk-doc=false \
136 -Dman=false \
137 -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no \
138 -Dudevrulesdir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d \
139 .. &amp;&amp;
140ninja</userinput></screen>
141
142<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>sed '/subdir.*doc/d' -i meson.build &amp;&amp;
143mkdir build &amp;&amp;
144cd build &amp;&amp;
145meson --prefix=/usr \
146 --buildtype=release \
147 -Dgtk-doc=false \
148 -Dman=false \
149 .. &amp;&amp;
150ninja</userinput></screen>
151
152 <para>
153 To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>. Some
154 checks may not pass due to missing files. Test suite should be run from
155 a local GUI session started with dbus-launch.
156 </para>
157
158 <para>
159 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
160 </para>
161
162<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
163
164 </sect2>
165
166 <sect2 role="commands">
167 <title>Command Explanations</title>
168
169 <para>
170 <command>sed 'subdir.*doc/d' ...</command>: Even when passing
171 <parameter>-Dgtk-doc=false</parameter> and
172 <parameter>-Dman=false</parameter>, the build still requires
173 <application>GTK-Doc</application>. This command allows building
174 without it installed. Remove this switch if you have
175 <application>GTK-Doc</application> installed and you wish to build the
176 documentation (you will also need to remove the next two parameters).
177 </para>
178
179 <para>
180 <parameter>-Dgtk-doc=false</parameter>: Prevents building the
181 documentation. Remove this if you have <application>GTK-Doc</application>
182 installed and wish to build the documentation.
183 </para>
184
185 <para>
186 <parameter>-Dman=false</parameter>: Prevents building the
187 manual pages. Remove this if you have <application>GTK-Doc</application>
188 installed and wish to build the manual pages.
189 </para>
190
191 <para revision="sysv">
192 <parameter>-Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no</parameter>: Removes
193 the dependency on <application>systemd</application>.
194 </para>
195
196 <para revision="sysv">
197 <parameter>-Dudevrulesdir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d</parameter>: Tells
198 the build system where to install <application>udev</application>
199 rules because the information is missing in
200 <filename>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libudev.pc</filename>
201 </para>
202
203 </sect2>
204
205 <sect2 role="configuration" revision="systemd">
206
207 <title>Configuring UPower</title>
208<!-- timer statistics have been removed from kernel (since 4.11)
209 I do not know if there is a replacement. See
210 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9561519
211 and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100626
212
213 <para>
214 To use the command <command>upower -w</command> for information about
215 processor wakeups (this command is used by <phrase revision="sysv">
216 <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-power-manager/">gnome-power-manager</ulink></phrase><phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="gnome-power-manager"/></phrase>)
217 you need to enable CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. This is achieved in
218 <command>make menuconfig</command> by going to the &apos;kernel-hacking&apos;
219 menu and selecting &apos;Collect kernel timers statistics&apos;.
220 </para>
221-->
222 <sect3 id="upower-init">
223 <title>Systemd Unit</title>
224
225 <para>
226 To start the <command>UPower</command> service at boot,
227 enable the previously installed systemd unit by
228 running the following command as the
229 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
230 </para>
231
232 <indexterm zone="upower upower-init">
233 <primary sortas="f-upower">upower</primary>
234 </indexterm>
235
236<screen role="root"><userinput>systemctl enable upower</userinput></screen>
237
238 </sect3>
239
240 </sect2>
241
242 <sect2 role="content">
243 <title>Contents</title>
244
245 <segmentedlist>
246 <segtitle>Installed Program<!--
247See below... <phrase revision="systemd">s</phrase>--></segtitle>
248 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
249 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
250
251 <seglistitem>
252 <seg>
253 upower
254<!-- <phrase revision="systemd"> and upowerd</phrase>
255Upowerd should not be listed, as it is in /usr/libexec, and is not supposed
256to be run by a user. Furthermore, upowerd is also in sysv, and there is no
257reason so single out systemd here. -->
258 </seg>
259 <seg>
260 libupower-glib.so
261 </seg>
262 <seg>
263 /etc/UPower,
264 /usr/include/libupower-glib, and
265 /var/lib/upower
266 </seg>
267 </seglistitem>
268 </segmentedlist>
269
270 <variablelist>
271 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
272 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
273 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
274
275 <varlistentry id="upower-prog">
276 <term><command>upower</command></term>
277 <listitem>
278 <para>
279 is the <application>UPower</application> command line tool
280 </para>
281 <indexterm zone="upower upower-prog">
282 <primary sortas="b-upower">upower</primary>
283 </indexterm>
284 </listitem>
285 </varlistentry>
286<!-- See above
287 <varlistentry id="upowerd" revision="systemd">
288 <term><command>upowerd</command></term>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>
291 is the <application>UPower</application> Daemon. It provides the
292 org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus.
293 </para>
294 <indexterm zone="upower upowerd">
295 <primary sortas="b-upowerd">upowerd</primary>
296 </indexterm>
297 </listitem>
298 </varlistentry>-->
299
300 <varlistentry id="libupower-glib">
301 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libupower-glib.so</filename></term>
302 <listitem>
303 <para>
304 contains the <application>UPower</application> API functions
305 </para>
306 <indexterm zone="upower libupower-glib">
307 <primary sortas="c-libupower-glib">libupower-glib.so</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 </variablelist>
313
314 </sect2>
315
316</sect1>
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