KF5Solid in subprefix and/or on [K]Ubuntu 14.04

[David Faure]

On mercredi 16 août 2017 11:12:43 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you know I've been building my own KF5 (and Qt5) packages for
> installation into /opt/local on an up-to-date Ubuntu 14.04LTS system. I
> register the required directories under /opt/local with DBus so (almost)
> everything works as you'd expect.
> 
> On notable difference I just discovered: KF5Solid apparently cannot read the
> vendor, product and description info for almost none of the available
> devices (via solid-hardware5; solid-hardware does). Exceptions are the CPU,
> battery, the internal drive and external USB drives and of course fstab
> entries. The differences in the UDIs found are minimal (see below).
> 
> What could be the reason why this information isn't available for so many
> devices?

Maybe a missing devel package (optional dependency of solid) ?
Check the cmake output when configuring solid...

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