Perhaps I should have said "highly unusual" instead of "weird." At any rate, I can't recall using a program before that works as sabayon-apply does. I'm not questioning whether sabayon-apply's behavior is reasonable, but I do think that this bug deserves an importance setting higher than wishlist, considering the potential for damage.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: sabayon The man page for sabayon-apply is woefully inadequate. In trying to apply a profile to a newly-created user, I ran sabayon-apply as root to gain write access to the user's $HOME (in my case, file ownership wasn't an issue). I issued the following commands: cd ~newuser sudo sabayon-apply profile_name Imagine my horror when sabayon-apply applied the profile (which turned out to be broken) to root, NOT newuser! Thus, my system is now hosed as I've been unable to figure what got changed; all I know is that now apps like the Users Settings app complains, "You are not allowed to modify the system configuration." - Command line programs nearly operate either on whatever is specified on - the command line or on the current directory. The documentation for - sabayon-apply makes no mention about how to select which user it should - operate on (which is already a gross omission). So, the only logical - guess is that it must copy the files to the current directory. No - reasonable user would expect it to operate on the current user when the - working directory is another user's home directory. + Command line programs nearly always operate either on whatever is + specified on the command line or on the current directory. The + documentation for sabayon-apply makes no mention about how to select + which user it should operate on (which is already a gross omission). So, + the only logical guess is that it must copy the files to the current + directory. No reasonable user would expect it to operate on the current + user when the working directory is another user's home directory. Please, if you do something weird--especially if it has the potential to be destructive--document it! -- sabayon-apply hosed my system due to inadequate documentation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
