Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:35:30 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG, Richy Kim <richy@apple.com> Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl Message-ID: <20010619223530.E3034@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> In-Reply-To: <3B2F8B52.2090100@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:26:42PM -0400 References: <20010614124213.A41047@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <200106141756.KAA11439@scv3.apple.com> <20010615171239.B935@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010619115903.F65489@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010619191557.B667@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <3B2F8B52.2090100@lmc.ericsson.se>
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Thus spake Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca): > > libh's package library completely uses TCL for everything. > > OpenPackages wants its own packaging format, so we have to support > > OpenPackages format in libh's libs. > Using tcl, you also mean in the package install procedures? Yes > I mean, to replace the usual @exec tags and other PLIST items of the > old system? Yes, you can specify whole scripts that do that, or the package fails back to default scripts if not defined. > As I understood from Jordan's inital proposal, TCL would be a way to > sandbox these installs.. Yes, a secure-interpreter is used, which allows only a subset of commands. (This is actually described in sysinstall2.txt) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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