From: Georgi Kirilov <kirilov.georgi.s@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Christopher Allan Webber" <cwebber@dustycloud.org>,
"John Darrington" <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:54:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170125145335.e5hij7hcs3iau4tm@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125134241.GA25335@jocasta.intra> <87h94o3ryj.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87vat6xgow.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>As for /var/lib/bsdgames, then it’s up to the admin to set the right
>permissions on it. We can ensure that it exists and has the right
>permissions on GuixSD, but on foreign distros, there’s nothing we can
>do.
Yep, I think making it work in GuixSD is enough :)
Other distros have their own package.
I tried adding a gnu/services/games.scm and mimicking what the other
services did, but I don't even know how to trigger the code.
I would appreciate any help.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:42:41PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
>I always thought the unix way was rather nice. The scores file was owned by
>"games" and programs which wanted to write to them were setuid games.
>
>That way everyone on the system shares the same scores file.
Yes, some of these games maintain and query a system-wide top scores
list so users can try to beat each other's top scores.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:26:28PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>I'm a bit wary about GuixSD packages declaring being able to write to
>/var/ anything by default. What would the permissions be? I guess if
>it were world-writable to all "users" group users it would be okayish.
This is exactly how this package does it - it installs initial, empty
score files and chgrp's them to 'users'.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-25 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 18:30 A postinst equivalent in Guix? Georgi Kirilov
2017-01-20 6:23 ` John Darrington
2017-01-20 14:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-21 14:39 ` Georgi Kirilov
2017-01-21 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-21 16:36 ` Georgi Kirilov
2017-01-23 9:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-25 0:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-01-25 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-25 13:42 ` John Darrington
2017-01-25 16:19 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-01-25 14:54 ` Georgi Kirilov [this message]
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