Re: GLIBC_2.4
On 10/31/07 22:54, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:31:45PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:52:36PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>>>> If all you want to do is put the mutt stuff in /usr/local, why not just
>>>> unpack the deb and place it manually? (or are search paths for libs
>>>> coded in the binary, I don't know)?
>>> This (or similar) kind of thing has been discussed before on the list,
>>> and ISTR that the debian packaging is pretty well hard-coded to non-local
>>> (i.e., the standard) target directories. It'd be nice to be able to
>>> apt{whatever} install to local trees, but there's just no support in
>>> the underlying system for this. I can't recall just why I ever wanted
>>> this feature, but would be interested if unpacking the deb and manually
>>> placing was a viable approach.
>> In a similar vein, I've wondered about regular users installing
>> packages when they aren't (or can't get) root. ITSM it might be nice
>> to be able to install in $HOME/blah as a fallback when installing as
>> non-root. BUt then there are potentially big security holes,
>> duplication of binaries, etc associated with that. But still, on
>> occaision, I see no problem with users apt-getting some mail client or
>> other user oriented package into their local tree. They can already
>> build from source to do this, so why not a .deb?
>
> My impression is that there's no particular reasons that it can't be done,
> but it just hasn't been done. There are probably wish list requests to
> this effect filed away somewhere on this, or so I dimly recall. My guess
> is that what it needs is a suitably motivated person to actually make
> it happen.
If $(HOME)/bin were first in your $PATH, then a malicious user or
app that has write access to your account, then they could put
sabotaged versions of common apps into $(HOME)/bin and do all sorts
of nasty things to you.
But then, I just noticed that somehow $(HOME)/bin is the first entry
in *my* $PATH!!! Must find out how that happened...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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