More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 16:21:07 UTC 2008
Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) said:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 06:29:47 pm Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > I still come back to one thing. Could the file permissions be
> > implemented differently so that CAPP compliance could be a system
> > install time choice, instead of being expressed in the configuration
> > of all installs?
>
> Just wanted to let you know I am thinking about this. I need to think though
> what this does to our project and how to make sure we still get the right
> outcome.
The issue with doing this outside of the packages themselves is that you
then lose all the built-in audting (used here generally) support -
database verification, verification against package files, etc. Not to
mention it makes upgrade handling entertaining.
Bill
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