coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Michael Stone
(Please CC: me, I no longer track debian-devel) I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing this would promote libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > to optional, but that would probably break something.) Thus, I am > soliciting input about whether this is something people would like to > see. The advantage is better support for acl's in debian (which will be I'd definitely like to see it. I think t

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l > will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing this would promote > libacl1 and libatt

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Michael Stone wrote: > Another possibility would be an optional coreutils-acl package or > somesuch, but I don't particularly like the idea of diversions or > alternatives or complex dependency structures for ls et al. What'd be the problem with a package "coreutils-acl" that just Conflicts:

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I don't know whether kernels other than linux support acl's, so this may > not affect the freebsd or hurd ports. FreeBSD supports ACLs but they don't have a libacl - their support for Posix1003.1e is in libc.

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Michael Stone wrote: > (Please CC: me, I no longer track debian-devel) > > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l Yay! Please do so! > Another possibility would be an opt

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required status. (Or demote coreutils Oh and btw, the depency on libattr1 is probably a bug. Since glibc 2.3 we have the xattr syscalls in libc (see /usr/include/sys/xattr.h)

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Clint Adams
> (Please CC: me, I no longer track debian-devel) Your M-F-T is broken. > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l How about selinux support?

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > (Please CC: me, I no longer track debian-devel) You should move debian-devel from "subscribe" to "lists" to automatize this. > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Michael Stone wrote: > > Another possibility would be an optional coreutils-acl package or > > somesuch, but I don't particularly like the idea of diversions or > > alternatives or complex dependency structures for ls et al. >

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > A demo package is available at people.d.o/~mstone/ Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why acl support is not integrated upstream? -- - mdz

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 23, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have >support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l Please do. -- ciao, | Marco | [963 dih6i3GB682fA]

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:05:34PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: What'd be the problem with a package "coreutils-acl" that just Conflicts: and Provides: coreutils? I'd worry about the fragility of such a system in the face of upgrades, the inability for a coreutils-acl to do a versioned provides:

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:43:17AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: How about selinux support? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193328 Mike Stone

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l I think this would be a good thing. > will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing th

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > (Please CC: me, I no longer track debian-devel) > > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l > will indicate whether a file has an

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Nathan Scott
hey Christoph, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required status. (Or demote coreutils > > Oh and btw, the depency on libattr1 is probably a bug. Since glibc 2.3