Replacing polkit JS backend

[Ikey Doherty]

So for libvirt *itself* its easy to do the rules [1] but if push
comes to shove I'm happy to help port the upstream projects if
they're reliant on dynamic rule generation.

As for the verbs part of the equation I do intend to have a part
of the format allowing this, something along the lines of:

ExpectedKeys=blah,blah1
ExpectedValues=foo,foo1

[1]
https://dev.solus-project.com/R1891:ab17e2be050aeb5815f78cac068402efeea2b198

For the majority of distros this would be a documented transition
across major releases due to the nature of the breakage, but
obviously if we can get as much of that anticipated before hand..

- ikey

On 21/10/17 18:55, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> The last time this came up (when I tried to replace mozjs with Duktape),
> it was pointed out that libvirt uses JS rules [0], and there's some
> evidence that administrators are doing it as well. [1]
> 
> [0] https://libvirt.org/aclpolkit.html
> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1159
> 
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org
> <mailto:mattdm at mattdm.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 03:40:40AM +0100, Ikey Doherty wrote:
>     > I've opted to make it an **alternative** backend to ease migration,
>     > thus:
>     >
>     >  --with-backend=js|keyfile
> 
>     Nice. I'm personally super in favor of it. Not speaking for Red Hat
>     officially, by any means. From a pure Fedora point of view...
>     I don't think we have many users taking advantage of the javascript
>     format, but if there are, I would prefer to not break them.
> 
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