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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:58:11 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>, ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Message-ID:  <20120826185810.GB42842@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <503A6D4B.9070606@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>=20
> > The is the longer plan but this with also true with pkg_add -r, and the=
 pkg
> > bootstrap may it be pkg-bootstrap or /usr/sbin/pkg. We have been discus=
sing with
> > Security officers and we are waiting for the plan being written and set=
up by
> > them, so we can improved security in both pkgng and the bootstrap. This=
 should
> > have happen in BSDCan, but lack of time from everyone, didn't made it h=
appen, we
> > are now aiming at Cambridge DevSummit for that.
>=20
> It would be nice if this were in place before 10-current shifted to pkg
> by default in order to limit the number of times that we have to start
> testing over from scratch.
>=20
> > Given that such a security issue is already in with the current pkg_* t=
ools, it
> > was accepting that we can still go that way until the policy is written=
, given
> > that the final goal is to have the pkgng package checked against a sign=
ature.
>=20
> This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg
> pass every command line to local/sbin/pkg.
>=20
> 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.
>=20

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?

regards,
Bapt

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