From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Georgi Kirilov <kirilov.georgi.s@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:15:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgtzxov3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h94o3ryj.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:26:28 -0600")
Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Georgi Kirilov <kirilov.georgi.s@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>
>>>>To make things more concrete, we could discuss specific packages you are
>>>>interested in and see how we could provide them in Guix{,SD}.
>>>
>>> The package is the old bsd-games bundle. Some of the games need to
>>> write score files under /var/lib/bsdgames/
>>> You can find attached my patch so far.
>>
>> The patch looks good to me!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> We could also modify bsd-games such that it falls back to
>> ~/.local/bsdgames when /var/lib/bsdgames isn’t accessible (and it would
>> be worth submitting upstream). ISTR this was discussed for one of the
>> games present in Guix.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> 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.
>
> Note that KoboDeluxe includes a patch snarfed from Debian that comments
> out the ability to save score files for this same reason, and it was
> marked in Debian as a security patch IIRC...
Yeah, I think scores in /var are a remnant of the past. Unix just lacks
a good way to address this use case.
So it sounds best for games to use a score file under $HOME by default.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-25 13:15 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 [this message]
2017-01-25 13:42 ` John Darrington
2017-01-25 16:19 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-01-25 14:54 ` Georgi Kirilov
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