[gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

Shouldn't /opt/kde/share/config be proteted as well as /etc? And the parallel 
gnome dir, whatever it is?


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:41:34PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Shouldn't /opt/kde/share/config be proteted as well as /etc? And the parallel 
> gnome dir, whatever it is?

I suppose so.  I'll add the kde one now.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
> /etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
> /opt/kde/share/config point there?
> 
> What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
> /opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
> it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
> an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.

Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described.  Could you add
it to the wiki and assign it to the System team?  Fixing it will be 
tricky.  The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where to
create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a symlink.

Best Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Mikael Hallendal]

Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:

Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
/etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
/opt/kde/share/config point there?

What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
/opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

> Hi all,
> 
> Shouldn't /opt/kde/share/config be proteted as well as /etc? And the
> parallel gnome dir, whatever it is?
> 
> 
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> Dan Armak
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
> Matan, Israel
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Mikael Hallendal]

Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:
> > 
> > Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
> >/etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
> >/opt/kde/share/config point there?
> > 
> > What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
> >/opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
> >it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
> >an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.
> 
> Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described.  Could you
> add it to the wiki and assign it to the System team?  Fixing it will
> be tricky.  The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where
> to create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a
> symlink.

That might be the best way of doing it yes. We must however fix
portage to handle this in some way. 

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

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