API hint

[Jussi Kukkonen]

Leenata Bankhele wrote:
>     Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
>      > Hi!
>      >
>      > I'd like to share my experience debugging an issue I had with
>     geoclue.
>      >
>      > No matter what I tried, no providers were working, only manual.  So I
>      > dug into the code to find out that the providers (such as Hostip)
>     were
>      > unavailable.
>      >
>      > I dug a little further to find out that the net_status was not set
>      > because I didn't have libnm*-dev! Therefore all network based
>     providers
>      > were discarded.
> 
>     geoclue_master_client_set_requirements() has a parameter
>     "require_updates". Setting that to FALSE should make the master client
>     use network based providers even without networkmanager or conic (there
>     won't be "changed" signals of course), but now that I test it doesn't
>     seem to work. I'll look into it and let you know.
> 
>  
> I have the same problem. No webservices are working.Tried setting it to 
> FALSE, but that didn't work. If I don't use the master then can I still 
> access Geonames Hostip Plazes or Yahoo directly without Networkmanager 
> or Conic?
> 

Yes. The basic providers themselves don't know anything about 
NetworkManager, that is just in master provider.

- Jussi