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["Marco A. Harrendorf" <marcokarlo@xxxxxx>]

Hello all,

from my experience with another app: A simple soft link will not work.
However, you can temporary make the root file system writeable and add
an entry in the /etc/fstab which mounts
the .local/share/osmscout.fransschreuder/ folder on the sd card.

Best regards,

Marco



Am Samstag, den 20.06.2015, 00:19 +0200 schrieb Frans Schreuder:
> 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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