pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to
/usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 26 18:39:07 UTC 2012
On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> The is the longer plan but this with also true with pkg_add -r, and the pkg
> bootstrap may it be pkg-bootstrap or /usr/sbin/pkg. We have been discussing with
> Security officers and we are waiting for the plan being written and setup by
> them, so we can improved security in both pkgng and the bootstrap. This should
> have happen in BSDCan, but lack of time from everyone, didn't made it happen, we
> are now aiming at Cambridge DevSummit for that.
It would be nice if this were in place before 10-current shifted to pkg
by default in order to limit the number of times that we have to start
testing over from scratch.
> Given that such a security issue is already in with the current pkg_* tools, it
> was accepting that we can still go that way until the policy is written, given
> that the final goal is to have the pkgng package checked against a signature.
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.
Doug
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