On Wed, 2007-20-06 at 18:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-20-06 at 17:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > the use of the binpkg is not an issue, it's the creation ... people > > > blindly creating tbz2's which could contain their sensitive files and > > > posting them > > > > > > i'll just go ahead with the feedback from Olivier and have quickpkg skip > > > CONFIG_PROTECT by default > > > > This will by default create potentially broken packages (since many just > > wont work without their CONFIG_PROTECTed files). That's why I suggested > > a big fat warning and accepting that we can't protect users against > > themselves or against social engineering (aka their own stupidity). > > i think this would only be an issue where quickpkg is being run > non-interactively and the output not being reviewed (which i also dont think > is a common scenario for quickpkg) ... the new output of quickpkg will be > explicit in what it is (or isnt) doing so there wont be any issue of "drive > by" social engineering
Well, I often use quickpkg when I want to try a new version of a package (I quickpkg the currently installed one.. and I want to keep all the config files). Then I emerge the new one, and I absolutely want to be able to restore the config files if I want to revert to an older version, either because they have been broken by the pkg_postinst or something else. I still haven't heard a good reason to change anything thats not the printing in quickpkg. > as for dubbing people who are successfully socially engineered "stupid", i > dont really think that's appropriate ... consider noobs on irc in #gentoo who > just want to help and havent learned their way around yet. are they stupid > (well they might be, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt) ? i'd > liken the situation to a kid growing up ... kids arent stupid, they lack > experience and calling them stupid isnt constructive I'm not calling anyone stupid... but I'm talking of our inner stupidity (which we all have)... -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer
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