[csw-maintainers] Owner/perms on /etc/opt{,/csw}

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Sep 11 20:37:51 CEST 2009


Hi Phil,

Am 11.09.2009 um 20:22 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ok then, checkpkg could check that there are no pathes from
>> CSWcommon in the package and no pathes "before them".
>
>
> it's kind of a pain to check for *ANY* path, considering the various
> permutations and "tricky stuff" people might do.
>
> there is currently a check for bare "/opt". that's the most common  
> case.
> are you proposing checks for... "/opt /etc /etc/opt /var /var/opt" ?

Sure. Take all pathes in CSWcommon, generate every prefix path and check
that there are none of them in there. And there must be a direct prefix
of every file in the package in CSWcommon.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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