From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix? Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:26:28 -0600 Message-ID: <87h94o3ryj.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87efzxakmi.fsf@gnu.org> <20170121143923.vdmmljvc3ngksuze@gmail.com> <87wpdojujk.fsf@gnu.org> <20170121163636.jyieflzslmyrtrmw@gmail.com> <87vat6xgow.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWBQ1-0004AU-J8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:26:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWBQ0-0001rt-Om for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:26:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vat6xgow.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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Georgi Kirilov Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Georgi Kirilov skribis: > >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> >>>To make things more concrete, we could discuss specific packages you a= re >>>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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s nothing = we can > do. > > We could also modify bsd-games such that it falls back to > ~/.local/bsdgames when /var/lib/bsdgames isn=E2=80=99t accessible (and = it would > be worth submitting upstream). ISTR this was discussed for one of the > games present in Guix. > > WDYT? > > Ludo=E2=80=99. 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...