From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 19 6:31:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from server3.safepages.com (server3.safepages.com [216.127.146.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A5737B423 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.surfbest.net (reston-gnap-ip-216006-81.dynamic.ziplink.net [216.8.6.81]) by server3.safepages.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E060C5DC4; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:31:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from surfbest.net (localhost.surfbest.net [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.surfbest.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1JEUAv25486; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:30:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kstailey@surfbest.net) Message-ID: <3C726171.8050603@surfbest.net> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:30:09 -0500 From: Ken Stailey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011222 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan E Cc: klh@panix.com, FreeBSD ports list Subject: Re: klh10 and its port submissions References: <3C6FC9EF.9040900@surfbest.net> <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> <200202180001.g1I01Og20036@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alan E wrote: >On Sunday 17 February 2002 17:40, Ken Stailey wrote: > >>Ports have to do "pkg_delete" and "make uninstall." How can cleanup be >>done if the installation allows aribtrary files to be created after >>"make install"? We really need to spend time thinking about all the >>aspects. >> > >It uninstalls what it installs. It's not responsible for uninstalling >something that a *user* installed later. See graphics/mplayer's "install*user" >script for a example of this in principle. > Still does not deal with the administrative nightmare of unprivledged users installing an ITS on an arbitrary IP address which they cannot firewall. The dpimp setuid could be restricted to group 'network'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message