Changeset 7e3b453 for pst/scanning/sane.xml

Timestamp:

09/01/2019 11:48:32 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

9.0

Parents:

b7fb1f4

Message:

sane-backends: the user running configure really need to belong to the scanner

group. Reintroduce the note about that, and use "sg" for configure

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/tags/9.0@22079 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• pst/scanning/sane.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

pst/scanning/sane.xml

@@ -154 +154 @@
 <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 70 scanner</userinput></screen>
 
-<!-- The following seems to be obsolete: I've built sane several times
-     as user pierre without adding it to the scanner group
       <note>
         <para>
-          The user building <application>SANE</application>-backends should be
-          a member of the <systemitem class="groupname">scanner</systemitem>
-          group before proceeding. After you have added the user building the
-          package to the <systemitem class="groupname">scanner</systemitem>
-          group, issue the following command to create a new shell:
+          <command>configure</command> assumes that the user building
+          <application>SANE</application>-backends is a member of the
+          <systemitem class="groupname">scanner</systemitem> group for testing
+          the existence of this group. So the user building the package should
+          be added to the <systemitem class="groupname">scanner</systemitem>
+          group. As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
         </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>su $(whoami)</userinput></screen>
-
-        <para>
-          Check the output of the <userinput>groups</userinput> command and
-          ensure the user is a member of the
-          <systemitem class="groupname">scanner</systemitem> group.
-        </para>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>usermod -G scanner -a <replaceable>username</replaceable></userinput></screen>
       </note>
--->
+
       <para>For a USB scanner, if you are linking to <xref linkend="libusb"/>,
       include the configure switch --enable-libusb_1_0. Install
@@ -179 +172 @@
       commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr        \
+<screen><userinput>sg scanner -c "                  \
+./configure --prefix=/usr        \
             --sysconfdir=/etc    \
             --localstatedir=/var \
             --with-group=scanner \
-            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/sane-backends-&sane-version; &amp;&amp;
+            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/sane-backends-&sane-version;" &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -252 +246 @@
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>sg scanner -c "..."</command>: runs the command between double
+      quotes with principal group <systemitem
+      class="groupname">scanner</systemitem>. This may be needed if the user
+      has been newly added to group scanner, and has not looged out and in.
+    </para>
 
     <para><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter>: This switch installs the