On 2/24/2013 4:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:39:49PM +0200, Thanos Baloukas wrote: >> Hi >> >> I installed Xulrunner-18.0.1/Firefox-18.0.1 today. >> Xulrunner installed most directories and files under >> unprivileged user's ownership. If no one else has noticed that, >> then I must have done something wrong. > > I would expect the ownership to be whoever installed them, and also > that an unprivileged user would NOT be able to write to them. I'm > not at my desktop at the moment.
Not the case here. root user installs them with permissions of the user that built the package (i.e., the Firefox package installation is broken at the upstream level). > Personally, I don't have any belief that sudo is useful for an LFS > user. For someone maintaining a production system, with strong > restrictions on what they can do, yes there is a use for it. But > having tried it while I was reworking my own buildscripts, it's too > easy to change it so that your user can do anything, and to allow > that with only a password on the first use during the current > session. We sure do have opposing opinions on that one, Ken. :-) I use sudo in my scripts so that I am certain that nothing gets installed in /usr unless I know about it. I always install a package as an unprivileged user to DESTDIR if I am unfamiliar with it before doing it for real by the root user. sudo works great for me. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
