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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release nfs-utils-1.2.6-2.mga3</H1>
<B>Olivier Blin</B>
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<I>Thu Jun 14 22:23:07 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> writes:
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>>>><i> Now installing a kernel spits those messages:
</I>>>>><i> libkmod: conf_files_filter_out: Directories inside directories are not
</I>>>>><i> supported: /lib/modprobe.d/nfs.conf
</I>>>>><i> (...)
</I>>>><i> We currently have no such /lib/modprobe.d directory in the
</I>>>><i> distribution, only /etc/modprobe.d. I guess our kmod package doesn't
</I>>>><i> support it yet, but should sooner or later. If I'm wrong, it's easy to
</I>>>><i> switch back to /etc/modprobe.d instead.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Actually, you installed the file as /lib/modprobe.d/nfs.conf/nfs.conf
</I>>><i> I've removed the extra directory level.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> But we should probably use /etc/modprobe.d/nfs.conf instead.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> IMO we should not use /etc/ here. /etc/ should be the domain of
</I>><i> administrator changes. IMO packages should always use /lib/ (or
</I>><i> eventually /usr/lib/) for such things. I've been pushing for this proper
</I>><i> separation for a while. udev and systemd do it properly although we do
</I>><i> still ship several udev files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ in packages which
</I>><i> should, by rights, be in /lib/udev/rules.d/
</I>
Yes, but currently, kmod and other system packages install modprobe
config files in /etc/modprobe.d:
$ rpm -qf /etc/modprobe.d/*
kmod-8-1.mga3
kmod-8-1.mga3
kmod-8-1.mga3
cups-common-1.5.3-5.mga3
kmod-8-1.mga3
kmod-8-1.mga3
sound-scripts-0.62-9.mga3
To be consistent, I moved the nfs-utils file there
><i> dbus upstream is still a big offender with policy files often ending up
</I>><i> in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ rather than in a /lib/ tree. This can and does
</I>><i> sometimes have security implications, e.g. with the privilege escalation
</I>><i> I recently reported regarding sectool:
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809437">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809437</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The policy file in question was marked with %config(noreplace) as it was
</I>><i> in /etc. But really this is a policy file which shouldn't be modified by
</I>><i> users. Therefore it shouldn't be marked as noreplace and it shouldn't
</I>><i> live in /etc/
</I>
Well, system administrators might want to change the default dbus
permissions.
><i> So, if the /lib/modprobe.d/ dir isn't parsed by kmod, we should fix kmod.
</I>
It seems it is parsed by kmod, but this doesn not seem to be mentionned
in the doc, and no package owns the dir...
I agree about moving modprobe config file into a system dir, but things
have to be done properly (with doc, proper directory owning, and all
packages doing the same).
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Olivier Blin - blino
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