paration), I can prepare a security writeup on that mechanism
(essentially it compares the UID with the EUID -- if they don't match,
then it looks up the UID in an accounts permissions table to determine
which actions that user can perform).
Also if further information is ne
orphaned branch of this repo)? That
way all packaging-specific items can be versioned separately from the
app itself.
Secondly, I'll put the above Makefile modifications in shortly, but it
may be a bit before the next posted release of Snebu. So for the
purpose of the RPM, shou
> Why? Rsnapshot and AMANDA are already available, stable, and quite robust.
> They seem to cover just the niches you're aiming at, and the performance and
> security ramifications have already been worked out. Plus, neither requires
> an SQL database, which makes them much more robust.
>
> It's
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Matthias Runge
wrote:
> A few remarks about your spec given at [2]:
> - Source0 should be a valid URL (if possible)
> - in files section, you should use %{_bindir} instead of /usr/bin
> - the same applies to your install section
> - and of course your changelog mu
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher
wrote:
> The Fedora packaging process can be a bit tricky the first time
> around; I'd recommend locating a member of the Fedora Sponsors who is
> interested in helping you with your first package and showing you the
> ropes.
>
Ok, where do I fi
I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora. Is it common for
the author of an open source package to act as package maintainer? Or is
it better to have someone else be the package maintainer (who is more
experienced with the Fedora build processes)? I'm the author of a backup
utili
Thanks. I've got the license info (GPLv3) pushed to the git
repository, but need to tag a new version for it to show up on the
download page (probably tonight once I get a couple more front-end
scripts in the repo).
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Not answering you
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Derek Pressnall wrote:
Is this the proper list to ask? Thanks.
>
> Yes it is!
>
> Paul
Cool. First off, I'd like for someone to review my project in general
terms, while I'm working on the
Hello, I'm looking at submitting my first package to Fedora, for a
backup system I recently contributed as open source. I've read
through most of the packaging guidelines (and have been doing RPM
packages in a corporate environment for a few years), but have a few
Fedora-specific questions. Is th
