On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
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> > > Joey> think you should point to that RFC in that section BTW, even
> > > Joey> though control file format varies from it in several ways.
> > >
> > > Color me puzzled. If we are so different from t
On 19 Sep 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have put an initial draft of the new package related policy
> manual on http://master.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/new-packaging.txt. I
> have tried to trim tis down to include only stuff I think ought to be
> in policy, using the follo
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Joey> But my point is that this is an implementation detail. I can
> Joey> envision systems that have no point of return, and can always
> Joey> be rolled back (think journaling filesystems).
>
> I guess I do not agree. At this point, the details of
> mainainer
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 21, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >Using an existing group like bin could cause problems. It's possible
> >systems exist that have users in the bin group and don't expect them to
> >suddenly be able to edit every file on the system. (What is the bin
> I d
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Don't forget that joeyh has the biggest harddrive of the world. He must
> have, because he has a maximum number of Debian packages installed.
>
> (Joey, what is the maximum number of Debian packages you can install without
> having a conflict?)
Bah. Bah I say.
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On 20-Sep-00, 23:29 (CDT), Nicol?s Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Manoj wrote:]
> > Umm, before we start proposing this, we should ahve a pilot
> > project, and have a few machines, including some running servers,
> > that run like this, and see what breaks. We can then rty changing
On Sep 21, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Using an existing group like bin could cause problems. It's possible
>systems exist that have users in the bin group and don't expect them to
>suddenly be able to edit every file on the system. (What is the bin
I don't agree. Being the owner of s
Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> It seems that in order to take full advantage of capabilities, files should
> not be owned by root. Files should be owned by a non-login user (e.g. bin).
I don't believe that is true at all. Can you explain why you think that
would be advantageous?
> That'
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:57:34PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:43:52AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> >Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> >> It should be:
> >>
> >> -rwxr-xr-x1 bin bin 42300 jul 29 13:26 /bin/ls*
> >>
> >Using an existing group like bin could ca
On 2920T160536-0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > We're not really that different. The rfc allows any line to be wrapped,
> > we do not.
>
> Erm, I'd consider any parser which does not allow this to be broken..
So would I, but since the spec says what it says, it allows people to
write Build-De
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:43:52AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>> It should be:
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x1 bin bin 42300 jul 29 13:26 /bin/ls*
>>
>Using an existing group like bin could cause problems. It's possible
>systems exist that have users in the bin group a
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> It should be:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x1 bin bin 42300 jul 29 13:26 /bin/ls*
>
> That's because root will be just another user, with its set of
> capabilities, and you may like to prevent him from altering system files.
> As this is a major change, we'd better
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