On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 7:51 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On 15/12/2022 13:34, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > That stopped working several releases ago.
>
> It should be fixed then. Please report this issue to dnf component.
>
> Some suggestions for current implementation:
>
> 1. Please rewrite the first run script from Bash to Python. Running bash
> scripts as root is extremely dangerous. One mistake or empty variable
> can cause a disaster.
>
> Example: rm -rf /usr/$foo. If the $foo variable is empty, it will wipe
> the entire /usr. Also everyone can inject any commands and execute them
> as root. Example: $foo = '; curl .... | bash'.
>

I don't take user input, so this doesn't matter, but...

> 2. Please do a network presence check before doing anything. Most users
> store Wi-Fi passwords in a KDE/GNOME keyring and there is no network
> access during the boot. The script will fail instantly.
>

... doing this will require Python anyway.

> 3. Please check if the full ffmpeg-libs or libavcodec-freeworld are
> installed. In such configurations, OpenH264 is not needed.
>

Meh.

> 4. Please implement an opt-out switch. Some users don't want openh264
> from Cisco's third-party repository to be installed.
>

Already exists.


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