Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-17 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- well, shouldn't be this considered ad ld.so bug? - - maybe, if it is i doubt its anywhere near trivial to fix (but im not sure - of that). (don't bother with chmod -x someone already tried that on - -devel awhile back, be prepared to have sash already running to fix your - broken system) of

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-08 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- I mounted /var as noexec/nodev because of security reasons. - I created partition /exec for using it on scripts etc that needs to be - executed. - noexec provides no real security whatsoever. nosuid,nodev are more - useful. - - try this: - - $ cp /bin/date /noexecfs - $ /noexecfs/date -

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: well, shouldn't be this considered ad ld.so bug? maybe, if it is i doubt its anywhere near trivial to fix (but im not sure of that). (don't bother with chmod -x someone already tried that on -devel awhile back, be prepared

Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
Hello, I mounted /var as noexec/nodev because of security reasons. I created partition /exec for using it on scripts etc that needs to be executed. Now I can't install packages - dpkg extracts package into /var/lig/dpkg/tmp.ci directory which is created for every new package and removed after

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 02:13:06PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: Hello, I mounted /var as noexec/nodev because of security reasons. I created partition /exec for using it on scripts etc that needs to be executed. Now I can't install packages - dpkg extracts package into

Re: Proposal: dpkg change: scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

2001-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
While we're on the topic, I would love to see the -S option to dpkg take symlinks and relative paths. Currently, when I do a dpkg -S /usr/bin/vi, it doesn't track the symlink through /etc/alternatives to nvi. I think it should. It's not that hard to do. I should report on the real path, and