Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You could make a task- package to do this. That would be cool. Then people could try it both ways and see which they prefer. On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I only said : `one will be able to do so', not : `it will be our default' > This real

Re: Permissions of /var/log

2000-01-25 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > How do we want these files to be? > > > > a) All of them should be root.root. > > b) All of them should be root.adm. > > c) This should not be covered by policy. > > I would say c) and let common sense decide. Gen

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:58:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > What about relase goal for woody : > > with woody one will be able to have (/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin > > /usr/games) stuff in one directory, (/sbin + /usr/sbin), (/lib + > > /usr/lib +

Re: Permissions of /var/log

2000-01-25 Thread Jean-Christophe . Dubacq
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > How do we want these files to be? > > > > a) All of them should be root.root. > > b) All of them should be root.adm. > > c) This should not be covered by policy. > > I would say c) and let common sense decide. Gen

Re: Permissions of /var/log

2000-01-25 Thread Brock Rozen
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 at 15:59, Santiago Vila wrote about "Permissions of...": > a) All of them should be root.root. > b) All of them should be root.adm. > c) This should not be covered by policy. I think an equally important question should be the permissions on such files. Some files should defi

Re: Permissions of /var/log

2000-01-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > How do we want these files to be? > > a) All of them should be root.root. > b) All of them should be root.adm. > c) This should not be covered by policy. I would say c) and let common sense decide. Generally the idea is: 1. logfiles which don't contain sensitive

Permissions of /var/log

2000-01-25 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. Some files in /var/log are root.adm, while some others are root.root. How do we want these files to be? a) All of them should be root.root. b) All of them should be root.adm. c) This should not be covered by policy. I would like to hear opinions about this. Thanks. -- "cdd7f6f8dfee3a

Bug#53763: Objections continued

2000-01-25 Thread Branden Robinson
[this was in reference to my X font policy proposal vis a vis bitchx, which ships a couple of X fonts with it] On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:43:50PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Well... either or... > > Spell it out in the policy so that console apps provide a package that > doesn't DEPEND on xb

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > What about relase goal for woody : > with woody one will be able to have (/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin > /usr/games) stuff in one directory, (/sbin + /usr/sbin), (/lib + > /usr/lib + /usr/X11R6/lib) and (/usr/share/man + usr/X11R6/man) also > as long as they

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:30:24AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Or GNU theirs. If GNU was involved in FHS discussions, there are > probably good reasons why the FHS didn't take their views on board. > If they weren't, then they should aim to follow the FHS anyway or aim > to get involved in chang

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:56:52PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:55:49AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > > Instead of being slammed for inventing conspiracies where none would exist, > > I would be perfectly happy to be proven wrong by someone providing > > a link to

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-25 Thread Brian May
> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Instead of being slammed for inventing conspiracies where none >> would exist, I would be perfectly happy to be proven wrong by >> someone providing a link to such archives. As so many of you >> eloquently put, my co

Re: policy summary [http_proxy]

2000-01-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> >> Http_proxy and web clients (#54524) > > Nobody else want this? I thought we all agreed on this one... > I'd like to see that in policy, but only if the programs use $no_proxy > as well. So you are sconding it.. aren't you? =)

Bug#53763: Objections continued

2000-01-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
Well... either or... Spell it out in the policy so that console apps provide a package that doesn't DEPEND on xbase-clients... either by requiring two packages, on that does and one that doesn't... or by encasing the required font-calls in if statements like update-menus... If either is written i