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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:53:08 +0200
- Message-id: <hovernki6j.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> - Also a update management system agnostic YOU watcher.
>
> The old one just ran "online_update" and parsed its output.
> Only for the actual update it required the root password.
>
> We could port the old one to run "rug", or whatever other
> equivalent.
>
> The ZMD permissions handling is too permissive and too difficult
> to understand in my eyes.
So, what do you propose for permissions? Always root password for the
update? I've seen positive feedback about needing the root password
only initially when granting the permissions.
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> [...]
> - Also a update management system agnostic YOU watcher.
>
> The old one just ran "online_update" and parsed its output.
> Only for the actual update it required the root password.
>
> We could port the old one to run "rug", or whatever other
> equivalent.
>
> The ZMD permissions handling is too permissive and too difficult
> to understand in my eyes.
So, what do you propose for permissions? Always root password for the
update? I've seen positive feedback about needing the root password
only initially when granting the permissions.
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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