From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: aegis: New variable. Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:18:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20140720071859.GA13707@jocasta.intra> References: <1405518437-24315-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87r41kdo87.fsf@gnu.org> <20140717160528.GB3678@intra> <874myfd1b5.fsf@gnu.org> <20140718043536.GA25423@jocasta.intra> <87silyltxd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8lOw-0000v6-AK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:19:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8lOs-0001Cp-4W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:19:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87silyltxd.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:42:38PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > I see (I think). Could we at least arrange for a message to be emit= ted on=20 > package --install suggesting that the package be added to setuid-pro= grams? > Aegis is useless without setuid-root. =20 I suppose aegis itself emits such a message, no? =20 Yes and no. The message it emits is : aegis: There was no -LIBrary option specified. This is mandatory in "test= " mode. An experienced person knows that to get out of "test" mode, you need to=20 install it setuid root. But I suggest that less experienced persons would = not. Arguably this is deficiency of aegis itself. Their counter-argument would= =20 probably be that if we choose not to install it the way described in the do= cs, then we must be prepared to deal with the consequences. J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPLbWMACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NP8QCfRIST9xGaYJo1ziEafbVKIWfY xt0AnAgKcMNa2f0snGQAsfI2Ge84b5Rm =34oG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--