sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Apr 13 17:39:14 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 05:37:12PM +0200, Mattia Verga wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >> I saw the changes in packaging guidelines related to PIE:
> >>
> >> /If your package meets the following criteria you *MUST* enable the
> >> PIE compiler flags: /
> >>
> >>  * /Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started
> >>    and keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand
> >>    and quit on idle. /
> >>
> >>  * /Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities. /
> >>
> >>  * /Your package runs as root. /
> >
> > [from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE]
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand how to parse this.
> >
> > - Is the above an 'AND' or an 'OR' set of requirements?
> 
> OR.

Thanks.  That wasn't clear to me at all -- when I first read it, I
assumed it must be 'AND'.  Can we update the packaging guidelines with
the word 'or' at the end of each bullet?

Rich.

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