From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix? Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:19:33 -0600 Message-ID: <87a8af3yei.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87efzxakmi.fsf@gnu.org> <20170121143923.vdmmljvc3ngksuze@gmail.com> <87wpdojujk.fsf@gnu.org> <20170121163636.jyieflzslmyrtrmw@gmail.com> <87vat6xgow.fsf@gnu.org> <87h94o3ryj.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87lgtzxov3.fsf@gnu.org> <20170125134241.GA25335@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWQIM-0007NE-Ol for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:19:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWQIJ-0004Wz-KQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:19:38 -0500 In-reply-to: <20170125134241.GA25335@jocasta.intra> 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" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Georgi Kirilov John Darrington writes: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > > > Ludovic Court??s writes: > > > >> Georgi Kirilov skribis: > >> > >>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s 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. > > 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. > > J' It's fun but... does anyone still play games on the same shared machine anymore and compare score files? Except for maybe nethack on fencepost ... ;)