Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:57:22 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING Message-ID: <20041229205722.GA41658@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1104353261.854.33.camel@leguin> References: <200412292001.iBTK1JBN042061@repoman.freebsd.org> <1104353261.854.33.camel@leguin>
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--0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:47:41PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:01 +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > lofi 2004-12-29 20:01:19 UTC > >=20 > > FreeBSD ports repository > >=20 > > Modified files: > > . UPDATING=20 > > Log: > > Add a note about checking the ICE socket directory in case KDE refuses > > to start after upgrading to Xorg 6.8.1 (which for some reason that's > > escaping me makes .ICE-unix/ not owned by root a fatal error). >=20 > This is because for security that directory does need to be owned by > root. The conclusion of various discussions and confcalls was that > there was no way to make .ICE-unix be owned by root reasonably from > X.Org's side, so distros would have to be responsible for it. I guess > the question is whether the rc script that does that, along with > the /tmp cleanup, should live in the base system or in the port. My > opinion is that an x11 setup script should actually live in the base > system, as there's no other sensible central place to put it, unless we > were to have a single "X11 common misc stuff" port. I think there's a PR about this. Kris --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0xoyWry0BWjoQKURAgN/AKDCIrBoiZmYB/FNxc4xrqN5wTcyRgCdEQbu NNr/E9FdqLIGpViEPXRoGV8= =8UYM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE--
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