From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 20:39:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3608D1065679; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:39:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D518FC1F; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7QKZ3EY039568; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:35:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q7QKZ3FW039565; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:35:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:35:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ian Lepore In-Reply-To: <1346008112.1140.76.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Message-ID: References: <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org> <20120825000148.GF37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50396113.3080607@cyberleo.net> <20120826122649.GA8995@stack.nl> <20120826125846.GD37534@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <503A6D4B.9070606@FreeBSD.org> <20120826185810.GB42842@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <1346008112.1140.76.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:35:04 -0600 (MDT) Cc: CyberLeo Kitsana , Baptiste Daroussin , Doug Barton , current@freebsd.org, Tjoelker , Steve Wills , ports@freebsd.org, Jilles@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:39:14 -0000 On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg >>> pass every command line to local/sbin/pkg. >>> >>> You keep saying that you have no objections to changing the name. I am >>> asking you to do that. I don't care if it is pkg-bootstrap or something >>> else you like better. But please change the name to not be pkg, and >>> limit the functionality of the tool to bootstrapping the pkg package. >>> >> >> I received more feedback about keep pkg and changing it to >> pkg-bootstrap, so what should I do, changing it because you are asking for it? > > Would this get better if the bootstrap tool were named pkg and were > installed on a fresh system at /usr/local/sbin, so that it in effect > replaces itself with the real thing, and has no need to leave a > forwarding stub in /usr/sbin ? > > Maybe it could rename itself to /usr/local/sbin/pkg-bootstrap as part of > replacing itself, so that you could re-bootstrap your way out of a > problem later. Ew. But on a similar note, an idea I just had in IRC is to have pkgng overwrite the base /usr/bin/pkg with a link to /usr/local/bin/pkg. That effectively removes that binary. We do have precedent for ports overwriting base with sendmail and openssl. > Hmmm, might have to be careful that future updates don't replace the > real thing with a newer bootstrap program. Yes. A link could be detected by installworld and not overwritten... although that's a hack.