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Riches Jr. a écrit : +</I>><i> >> (New list subscriber...needed to fix registered email address to post...) +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> I was asked to submit this suggestion to the mailing list: +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> As a Mageia user, I believe msec was much better off with_OUT_ +</I>><i> >> sectool. In its present state, sectool is BADLY broken. It +</I>><i> >> whines for pages about file permissions that are exactly as they +</I>><i> >> should be. +</I>><i> > Can you be more specific ? +</I>><i> It think he means this: <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808</A> +</I>><i> or <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c21">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c21</A> or +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c22">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c22</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I've also become supportive of this, sectool is basically duplicating +</I>><i> partly msec functionality, there was no adaption for Mageia, currently it's +</I>><i> checking on Mageia with the upstream Fedora configuration. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Honestly this should have been done when importing it, as +</I>><i> tmb already mentioned. msec should be patched to not require it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When we can't even get our default security tool to work properly, +</I>><i> what's the point in adding a second one which needs even more +</I>><i> maintenance? +</I> +As you say, the question is again "why was it uploaded in the first place". +It seems some packages were uploaded, and there seemed to have not enough +tests. While that's hard or impossible to avoid totally, that's not really +the way to achieve a good distribution :/ + +I neither use msec or sectool, so I personnaly do not care that much. +Afaik, sectool was created by a ex mandriva/mandrake guy ( vincent danen ), +because he was ( rightfully ) wanting to rewrite msec, who is/was +a mess of bash + python + perl code ( and rather ugly code, afaik, last time +I took a look ), but if msec is supported, and sectool is not, then I guess +we could drop. However, I still think we should first attempt to collaborate +and fix it. ( ie, always have the reflex of "try to fix and collaborate" ). + +-- +Michael Scherer +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009551.html">[Mageia-dev] (second attempt) suggesting sectool be dropped +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009595.html">[Mageia-dev] (second attempt) suggesting sectool be dropped +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9594">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9594">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9594">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9594">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |