On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> > >
> > > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device
> > > files, and
> > > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions?
> > >
> >
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> >
> > What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files,
> > and
> > you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions?
> >
> > So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recre
On Wed 25 Jul 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> What happens if the admin has set certain permissions on the device files, and
> you go and recreate them, thereby removing those permissions?
>
> So you say, that's easy to fix, I just won't recreate the devices if they
> already exist. Well, what happe
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I got a bug report, marked "serious", on isdnutils today.
>
> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create
> the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission.
>
> Apparently this is policy, although no on
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:28:32AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:02:07PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
>> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to
>> create the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for
>> permission.
>>
>> Apparently thi
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:02:07PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to
> create the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for
> permission.
>
> Apparently this is policy, although no one seems to know
> why it exists (a searc
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Does dpkg et al. have something similar, and if not, would it be
>> considered something useful? I can try to get/provide details if
>> it would be helpful.
>
>No we don't, and I consider it bloat in the package manager.
I havent decided wether I l
Previously Mike A. Harris wrote:
> We currently AFAIR have all device nodes in a single RPM package
> in RHL, however this may change..
You indeed do.
> Does dpkg et al. have something similar, and if not, would it be
> considered something useful? I can try to get/provide details if
> it would
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:07:05 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
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>
> It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create
> the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission.
>
It does seem a bit odd. Most packages seem to ignore that piece of policy.
Only plausible rationale would be the "sysadmins are cranky and wa
I got a bug report, marked "serious", on isdnutils today.
It concerns the fact that MAKEDEV is called from the postinst to create
the required ISDN devices, without first asking the user for permission.
Apparently this is policy, although no one seems to know why it exists
(a search of policy arc
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