OpenPKG Specs: openpkg/release.8@0ba300bdf30a (annotated)

openpkg/release.8@0ba300bdf30a (annotated)

openpkg/release.8

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200

author: Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200
changeset 178: 0ba300bdf30a
child 428: f880f219c566
permissions: -rw-r--r--

Change unfortunate but partly useful overreaching security tradeoff.
The principle of allocating each running process an individual system
user and group can have security benefits, however maintining a plethora
of users, groups, processes, file modes, file permissions, and even
nonportable file ACLs on a host serving from a hundred processes has
some security disadvantages. This tradeoff is even worse for systems
like OpenPKG which benefit from administration transparency through the
use of minimal system intrusion and only three usage privilege levels.

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 .IX Title "RELEASE 8"
 .TH RELEASE 8 "OpenPKG" "RELEASE(8)" "OpenPKG"
 .SH "NAME"
 \&\fBopenpkg release\fR \- OpenPKG Release Utility
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
 \&\fBopenpkg release\fR [\fB\-F\fR|\fB\-\-fmt\fR \fIformat\fR]
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
 The \fBopenpkg release\fR command displays the OpenPKG release tag and
 distribution \s-1URL\s0. The release tag uniquely identifies an OpenPKG
 distribution and the distribution \s-1URL\s0 is the location where the
 distribution packages and indices are stored.
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .IX Header "OPTIONS"
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 .IX Item "-F, --fmt format"
 The output format specification. The argument \fIformat\fR is an arbitrary
 string which can contain the special expansion constructs "\f(CW%t\fR\*(L" for
 expanding the release tag, \*(R"\f(CW%u\fR\*(L" for expanding the distribution \s-1URL\s0
 and \*(R"\f(CW\*(C`\en\*(C'\fR" for expanding an embedded newline character.
 The instance \s-1UUID\s0 information is also availble by expanding
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 The default \fIformat\fR is "\f(CW\*(C`OpenPKG\-%t %u\*(C'\fR".
 .IP "\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-release\fR \fIrelease\fR" 4
 .IX Item "-r, --release release"
 The package "\f(CW\*(C`Release\*(C'\fR" header value to use for deriving the release
 tag. The values in the \fI@l_prefix@/etc/openpkg/release\fR file and the
 "\f(CW\*(C`Release\*(C'\fR" header of the bootstrap package \fBopenpkg\fR are ignored if
 this option is used.
 .SH "FILES"
 .IX Header "FILES"
 .IP "\fI@l_prefix@/etc/openpkg/release\fR" 4
 .IX Item "@l_prefix@/etc/openpkg/release"
 This optional configuration file can be used to explicitly set values
 for the OpenPKG release tag and distribution URLs. It consists of lines
 with variable name/value pairs. The following configuration variables
 are recognized:
 .RS 4
 .IP "\fBTAG=\fR\fItag\fR" 4
 .IX Item "TAG=tag"
 The default \fItag\fR is automatically derived from the "\f(CW\*(C`Version\*(C'\fR" header
 of the OpenPKG bootstrap package \fBopenpkg\fR. One usually only sets this
 explicitly to a value if a bootstrap package is used from a foreign
 distribution version.
 .IP "\fBURL=\fR\fIurl\fR" 4
 .IX Item "URL=url"
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 variable and the corresponding filesystem layout on \f(CW\*(C`ftp.openpkg.org\*(C'\fR.
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 .RS 4
 .RE
 .RS 4
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 .Vb 2
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 \& OpenPKG-CURRENT ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/current/SRC/
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 \& $ openpkg release --fmt=%t
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 .Vb 3
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 .Ve
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 .Vb 3
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 \& TAG=2-STABLE-20060622
 \& URL=ftp://ftp.example.com/mirror/openpkg.org/*
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 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
 \&\fIuuid\fR\|(8)
 .SH "HISTORY"
 .IX Header "HISTORY"
 The \fBopenpkg release\fR command first appeared in \fBOpenPKG 2\-STABLE\-20060622\fR.

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