Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Trek
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:31:15 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > If _apt deserves a special solution, I would suggest assigning the > _apt user a static uid instead of patching debootstrap. it seems to me the simplest approach, from a technical point of view, and it's the one I'm using since _apt us

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Trek
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:32:17 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about > such details. _apt user is standard to debian, but not its uid the _apt user is created by the apt postinst, that cannot know anything about the host system from w

Bug#697905: persistent naming in crypttab

2015-02-15 Thread Trek
as I have installed jessie with debootstrap, I cannot verify if the swap config lines in /etc/crypttab are safe now, but reading the source they are not the patch I proposed 2 years ago sadly run only on linux but not on kfreebsd nor hurd may be that in the meanwhile we can add a warning in the R

Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2015-02-15 Thread Trek
the patch works perfectly, I hope it will be included in jessie+1 you can roughly apply the patch on debootstrap 1.0.66 with: patch -r- /usr/sbin/debootstrap 668001.patch patch -r- /usr/share/debootstrap/functions 668001.patch and press enter to any question after patching I can install a new s

Bug#697905: persistent naming in crypttab

2013-01-11 Thread Trek
Package: partman-crypto Version: 56 Hi, I think that using udev persistent device naming in /etc/crypttab would be useful to prevent some dangerous situation, like the following one. I have a 3 disks setup with the first two in raid mode and the third as archive. The swap partitions are encrypte