Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends
On 04/26/10 14:13, Alberto Villa wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 21:50:39 Doug Barton wrote: >>> ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. >> >> It only applies to builds/upgrades. > > and my suggestion would have been: "extend it to other parts of the program" The features other than building already include confirmation steps, so there is actually no harm in running them as root to start with. > but this was just in theory, personally i would do nothing Thanks, that's the answer I was hoping for. :) >>> what if i, as a regular >>> user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? >> >> That would be silly. :) > > definitely, but ain't we all a bit silly? ;) My point is that it is actually possible to over-engineer things in an effort to try to prevent every possible mistake. While I definitely try to be cautious with my programming (some say too cautious) if you make something idiot-PROOF the universe will simply make better idiots. I don't want to sound flippant, but the code in portmaster is already WAY too complex. I am resistant to adding more complexity without a clear need. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends
On Monday 26 April 2010 21:50:39 Doug Barton wrote: > > ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. > > It only applies to builds/upgrades. and my suggestion would have been: "extend it to other parts of the program" (i wrote a portmaster/tinderbox like script on freefall which uses "-n" to simulate anything, and it's nice) but this was just in theory, personally i would do nothing > > what if i, as a regular > > user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? > > That would be silly. :) definitely, but ain't we all a bit silly? ;) -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla QOTD: "I've got one last thing to say before I go; give me back all of my stuff." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends
On 04/26/10 01:13, Alberto Villa wrote: > On 4/26/10, Doug Barton wrote: >> This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think? > > i don't mind very much, but imho... > >> OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like >> this that require root access to actually change things as a regular >> user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the >> command as root. > > ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. It only applies to builds/upgrades. > what if i, as a regular > user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? That would be silly. :) It would also solve the problem mentioned in the OP. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends
On 4/26/10, Doug Barton wrote: > This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think? i don't mind very much, but imho... > OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like > this that require root access to actually change things as a regular > user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the > command as root. ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. what if i, as a regular user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? that wouldn't be "painless" :) -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on --check-depends and friends
On 04/25/10 12:03, Eitan Adler wrote: > When I run portmaster with --check-depends or --check-port-dbdir as a > non-root user portmaster will continue to attempt to write to the db > dir. > For example > ===>>> Checking jpeg-8_1 > ===>>> Updating +REQUIRED_BY > install: /var/db/pkg/jpeg-8_1/+REQUIRED_BY: Permission denied > > portmaster should check before it goes through the whole process and > see if it has write access to /var/db/ports. I'm sort of ambivalent about this. For the most part I would imagine that users would either anticipate this issue and run it as root or set up PM_SU_CMD. OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like this that require root access to actually change things as a regular user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the command as root. This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think? Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
