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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:39:15 -0400
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, Alex Kozlov <ak@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331046 - head/Mk/Scripts
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References:  <201310201812.r9KICnwq080041@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxg=iZAkgtZtHDUq6Sb_2t2bcW23xhrdCNkQtU-KFvF_a7Q@mail.gmail.com> <20131021064704.GA29510@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAF6rxgnMtVeS=dofW72rxPCF=405ed5CXb5-aDZFpepKnWmaSg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:01:38PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alex Kozlov <ak@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > Author: ak
> >> > Date: Sun Oct 20 18:12:49 2013
> >> > New Revision: 331046
> >> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/331046
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> >   - Add check for suid files and directories
> >>
> >> Can you please add an in-port variable to disable this (NEEDS_SUID /
> >> NEEDS_ROOT) or remove this check?
> >>
> >> Warnings which may be ignored are not very useful.
> >>
> >
> > I do not think this is really a good way. First NEED_ROOT is a temporary
> knob
> > and should die as soon a possible as everything should be doable as a
> user.
>
> As I said to Alex privately,
>
> it should be possible to run check-sanity across the tree and get
> *zero* results.  If some warnings could be ignored people will start
> ignoring all of them or people will start to "fix" them incorrectly.
> Look at what happens with portlint warnings.
>
> There needs to be an in-port method of quieting bogus warnings.
>
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
> Source, Ports, Doc committer
> Bugmeister, Ports Security teams
>



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