installpkg messing up perms
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From: Dario Niedermann on 16 Jul 2010 19:51 Res <res(a)ausics.net> wrote: > i[...] Who are you, Dan "dense" C's equally stupid brother? -- > head -n1 /etc/*-{version,release} && uname -moprs Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.31-smp i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: Dario Niedermann on 17 Jul 2010 06:11 Old Man <bill(a)witch.lan.invalid> wrote: > In any case, you've "accomplished" all you can here. All you have accomplished so far is: 1. missing the point; 2. pathetically repeating stuff that's already been done to death. Good job, Old Fart. -- > head -n1 /etc/*-{version,release} && uname -moprs Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.31-smp i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: A Guy Called Tyketto on 18 Jul 2010 02:48 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dario Niedermann <M8R-cthw2f(a)spamherelots.com> wrote: > > lame jokes don't get funny by reiteration. > </modquote> BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: tyketto(a)sbcglobal.net Unix Systems Administrator, | tyketto(a)ozemail.com.au Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! :) | http://www.wizard.com/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMQqOwyBkZmuMZ8L8RAk2iAKDg2TE8XoOa9mKILoE/uYYrGwipBwCgg/3T RtFP5QK/ZRq0Vc5lgZCnzyY= =MqUR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Mike Jones on 18 Jul 2010 07:43 Responding to A Guy Called Tyketto: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dario Niedermann <M8R-cthw2f(a)spamherelots.com> wrote: >> >> lame jokes don't get funny by reiteration. >> >> > </modquote> You want the troll? Take it. Its yours. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Joost Kremers on 18 Jul 2010 18:37
Dario Niedermann wrote: > Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: >> Is it really so that a package installer never should alter the >> permissions on any pre-existing directory? > > IMO yes, but above you admitted that the install.sh script may still change directory permissions. > because any permission change done by installpkg is effectively > being done "behind the admin's back". that depends on your point of view. one may also be of the opinion that an admin should check what a third-party package installs before actually installing it. in fact, installpkg makes this quite easy. from the man page: --warn packagename Generate a report to the standard output about which files and directories would be removed or overwritten if you install the package, but do not actually install it. as someone has already pointed out in this thread, makepkg checks whether the permissions on the files and directories it packages up are "sane" (by some definition of sane) and asks you if you want to change them if they are not. this suggests that patrick volkerding has already thought about this issue and has decided against having installpkg check and fix permissions. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers(a)yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9) |