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[Frans Schreuder <fransschreuder@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is one possible fix, until the reviewers press the freakin' button
"manual review approved".
Just go to Github, download the sourcecode.
Install ubuntu-sdk and open
libosmscout/OSMScout/OSMScout.pro

Edit OSMScout.apparmor and paste the following content:

{
    "policy_groups": [
        "location",
        "networking",
        "audio"
    ],
    "policy_version": 1.3,
    "read_path": [
        "/media/",
        "@{HOME}/Documents/[Mm][Aa][Pp][Ss]/"
    ],
    "write_path": [
        "/media/*/*/[Mm][Aa][Pp][Ss]/",
        "@{HOME}/Documents/[Mm][Aa][Pp][Ss]/"
    ]
}

Then compile and install on device. That should give you access to the
SD card.
It may also help if more people complain about this issue... Security
measures don't help if they are so stringent that people start looking
for workarounds.


On 06/20/2015 12:02 AM, Torsten Sachse wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Frans Schreuder wrote:
>
>> The problem is that the current version of Ubuntu doesn't allow read
>> access to the SD card, unless you
>> specify a rule in the apparmor file.
> [...]
>> For now I published a version of OSMScout without the special rules,
>> so it only allows read / write
>> access to maps located in
>> $HOME/.local/share/osmscout.fransschreuder/Maps
>
> Hi Frans & developers,
>
> do you reckon this problem could be temporarily fixed by creating a
> soft link
> to a directory on the SD-card or would that sill require that special
> apparmor
> rule? If a simlink does not work, it might help to create an image as a
> container on the SD-card and mount it to the folder mentioned above. I
> don't
> want to circumvent any system security but I'm rather wondering
> whether there
> is a temporary way to still have the maps on the SD-card. Will try
> both ways
> tomorrow or on Sunday.
>
> Torsten

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