Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:08:32 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>, Jilles Subject: Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap Message-ID: <1346008112.1140.76.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <20120826185810.GB42842@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> 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>
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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. Hmmm, might have to be careful that future updates don't replace the real thing with a newer bootstrap program. -- Ian
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