[Mageia-dev] (second attempt) suggesting sectool be dropped

Tue Nov 15 11:39:29 CET 2011

Am 15.11.2011 07:29, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> Le lundi 14 novembre 2011 à 22:09 -0800, Robert M. Riches Jr. a écrit :
+>> (New list subscriber...needed to fix registered email address to post...)
+>>
+>> I was asked to submit this suggestion to the mailing list:
+>>
+>> As a Mageia user, I believe msec was much better off with_OUT_
+>> sectool.  In its present state, sectool is BADLY broken.  It
+>> whines for pages about file permissions that are exactly as they
+>> should be. 
+> Can you be more specific ?
+It think he means this: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808
+or https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c21 or
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255#c22
+
+I've also become supportive of this, sectool is basically duplicating
+partly msec functionality, there was no adaption for Mageia, currently it's
+checking on Mageia with the upstream Fedora configuration.
+
+Honestly this should have been done when importing it, as
+tmb already mentioned. msec should be patched to not require it.
+
+When we can't even get our default security tool to work properly,
+what's the point in adding a second one which needs even more
+maintenance?
+>>  It leaves two orphaned gpg-agent processes. 
+> Fill bug report about this, that can surely be corrected by upstream.
+>
+>>  It
+>> leaves at least three files or directories cluttering up /tmp.
+> Same for that.
+>
+
+