[csw-maintainers] (now about sudo)

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Dec 10 18:11:31 CET 2009


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Filed bug 4074 about this issue.
>

Thanks.

> My brain says the right thing to do is:
>
> 1. Get the alternatives mechanism in place
> 2. Modify CSWsudo to use it
> 3. Modify CSWsudo_ldap to use it, give it higher priority (if both are
> installed at the same time, use sudo.ldap)
> 4. Remove the stupid symlink from CSWsudo_common
> 5. Release all three packages at the same time
>
> Does it look good?

yes... except if it takes more than a week to implement, in which
case, I'd say just release new sudo with the symlink in postinstall.
sudo needs upgrading sooner rather than later, for security reasons, I thought.



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