Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Trek
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:31:15 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > If _apt deserves a special solution, I would suggest assigning the > _apt user a static uid instead of patching debootstrap. it seems to me the simplest approach, from a technical point of view, and it's the one I'm using since _apt us

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le mar. 18 juin 2019 23:55:29 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Changwoo, do you think you can come up with some simple change to let it > > build on Stretch? We can probably make it conditional, so that it's only > > the immediate builds which w

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Philipp Kern writes: > 20/06/2019 20:22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> You look up which uid the _apt user inside the chroot has and use that. > > Yeah, but that scales poorly if you have a centralized firewall > policy. It means that you need to maintain dynamic rules. I know it's > possible and you

Processed: Re: Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 + buster-ignore Bug #929877 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language Added tag(s) buster-ignore. -- 929877: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929877 Debian Bug Tracking Syste

Re: Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + buster-ignore Hello, Holger Wansing, le jeu. 20 juin 2019 10:31:39 +0200, a ecrit: > ButterflyOfFire wrote: > > I think it is okay for those diacritics. > > I have uploaded that fix now. Thanks! > Leaving this bug open as a reminder for the "real" problem inside of gtk (?)

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 20/06/2019 20:22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Trek writes: Ansgar Burchardt wrote: For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network namespaces (to only provide limited network access for all processes) and/or user namespaces (if filtering for single UIDs is really needed). Th

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 20/06/2019 09:50, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Ansgar Burchardt writes: (I don't maintain debootstrap.) I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about such details. For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network namespaces (to only provide limited netw

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Trek writes: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network >> namespaces (to only provide limited network access for all processes) >> and/or user namespaces (if filtering for single UIDs is really >> needed). These do not require any uids to matc

Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi, [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has to

partman-auto_149_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2019-06-20 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:19:28 +0200 Source: partman-auto Architecture: source Version: 149 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team Changed-By: Holger Wansing Closes: 927535 Changes:

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Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Trek
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:32:17 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about > such details. _apt user is standard to debian, but not its uid the _apt user is created by the apt postinst, that cannot know anything about the host system from w

Bug#927535: marked as done (Updating the partman-auto Uploaders list)

2019-06-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:48:30 + with message-id and subject line Bug#927535: fixed in partman-auto 149 has caused the Debian Bug report #927535, regarding Updating the partman-auto Uploaders list to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt wi

Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, ButterflyOfFire wrote: > Hi, > I think it is okay for those diacritics. > Regards, I have uploaded that fix now. Leaving this bug open as a reminder for the "real" problem inside of gtk (?) Holger > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > Le mardi 18 juin 2019 22:26, Holger Wansing a écrit 

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > (I don't maintain debootstrap.) > > I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about > such details. > > For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network > namespaces (to only provide limited network access for all processes) > and/

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Schaller writes: > At the end of the 'apt' package installation the '_apt' user will be > created without specifying a fixed uid. This typically results in a > differing '_apt' uid between the host system and the bootstrapped > system. The differing '_apt' uid is problematic in case the hos