openpkg/release.pod@0ba300bdf30a (annotated)
openpkg/release.pod
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.
| michael@13 | 1 | ## |
| michael@13 | 2 | ## release -- OpenPKG Release Utility |
| michael@13 | 3 | ## Copyright (c) 2000-2007 OpenPKG Foundation e.V. <http://openpkg.net/> |
| michael@13 | 4 | ## Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Ralf S. Engelschall <http://engelschall.com/> |
| michael@13 | 5 | ## |
| michael@13 | 6 | ## Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for |
| michael@13 | 7 | ## any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that |
| michael@13 | 8 | ## the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all |
| michael@13 | 9 | ## copies. |
| michael@13 | 10 | ## |
| michael@13 | 11 | ## THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED |
| michael@13 | 12 | ## WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF |
| michael@13 | 13 | ## MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. |
| michael@13 | 14 | ## IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THEIR |
| michael@13 | 15 | ## CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, |
| michael@13 | 16 | ## SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT |
| michael@13 | 17 | ## LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF |
| michael@13 | 18 | ## USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND |
| michael@13 | 19 | ## ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, |
| michael@13 | 20 | ## OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT |
| michael@13 | 21 | ## OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
| michael@13 | 22 | ## SUCH DAMAGE. |
| michael@13 | 23 | ## |
| michael@13 | 24 | |
| michael@13 | 25 | =pod |
| michael@13 | 26 | |
| michael@13 | 27 | =head1 NAME |
| michael@13 | 28 | |
| michael@13 | 29 | B<openpkg release> - OpenPKG Release Utility |
| michael@13 | 30 | |
| michael@13 | 31 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
| michael@13 | 32 | |
| michael@13 | 33 | B<openpkg release> [B<-F>|B<--fmt> I<format>] |
| michael@13 | 34 | |
| michael@13 | 35 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| michael@13 | 36 | |
| michael@13 | 37 | The B<openpkg release> command displays the OpenPKG release tag and |
| michael@13 | 38 | distribution URL. The release tag uniquely identifies an OpenPKG |
| michael@13 | 39 | distribution and the distribution URL is the location where the |
| michael@13 | 40 | distribution packages and indices are stored. |
| michael@13 | 41 | |
| michael@13 | 42 | =head1 OPTIONS |
| michael@13 | 43 | |
| michael@13 | 44 | =over 4 |
| michael@13 | 45 | |
| michael@13 | 46 | =item B<-F>, B<--fmt> I<format> |
| michael@13 | 47 | |
| michael@13 | 48 | The output format specification. The argument I<format> is an arbitrary |
| michael@13 | 49 | string which can contain the special expansion constructs "C<%t>" for |
| michael@13 | 50 | expanding the release tag, "C<%u>" for expanding the distribution URL |
| michael@13 | 51 | and "C<\n>" for expanding an embedded newline character. |
| michael@13 | 52 | The instance UUID information is also availble by expanding |
| michael@13 | 53 | C<%r> to UUID_REGISTRY, C<%i> to UUID_INSTANCE, C<%p> to UUID_PLATFORM. |
| michael@13 | 54 | The default I<format> is "C<OpenPKG-%t %u>". |
| michael@13 | 55 | |
| michael@13 | 56 | =item B<-r>, B<--release> I<release> |
| michael@13 | 57 | |
| michael@13 | 58 | The package "C<Release>" header value to use for deriving the release |
| michael@13 | 59 | tag. The values in the F<@l_prefix@/etc/openpkg/release> file and the |
| michael@13 | 60 | "C<Release>" header of the bootstrap package B<openpkg> are ignored if |
| michael@13 | 61 | this option is used. |
| michael@13 | 62 | |
| michael@13 | 63 | =back |
| michael@13 | 64 | |
| michael@13 | 65 | =head1 FILES |
| michael@13 | 66 | |
| michael@13 | 67 | =over 4 |
| michael@13 | 68 | |
| michael@13 | 69 | =item F<@l_prefix@/etc/openpkg/release> |
| michael@13 | 70 | |
| michael@13 | 71 | This optional configuration file can be used to explicitly set values |
| michael@13 | 72 | for the OpenPKG release tag and distribution URLs. It consists of lines |
| michael@13 | 73 | with variable name/value pairs. The following configuration variables |
| michael@13 | 74 | are recognized: |
| michael@13 | 75 | |
| michael@13 | 76 | =over 4 |
| michael@13 | 77 | |
| michael@13 | 78 | =item B<TAG=>I<tag> |
| michael@13 | 79 | |
| michael@13 | 80 | The default I<tag> is automatically derived from the "C<Version>" header |
| michael@13 | 81 | of the OpenPKG bootstrap package B<openpkg>. One usually only sets this |
| michael@13 | 82 | explicitly to a value if a bootstrap package is used from a foreign |
| michael@13 | 83 | distribution version. |
| michael@13 | 84 | |
| michael@13 | 85 | =item B<URL=>I<url> |
| michael@13 | 86 | |
| michael@13 | 87 | The fully-qualified distribution URL based on either the "C<ftp>", |
| michael@13 | 88 | "C<http>" or "C<file>" URL schemes. If I<url> contains a trailing |
| michael@13 | 89 | "C</*>", this is expanded according to the I<tag> value of the B<TAG> |
| michael@13 | 90 | variable and the corresponding filesystem layout on C<ftp.openpkg.org>. |
| michael@13 | 91 | The default I<url> is "C<ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/*>". |
| michael@13 | 92 | |
| michael@13 | 93 | =over |
| michael@13 | 94 | |
| michael@13 | 95 | =back |
| michael@13 | 96 | |
| michael@13 | 97 | =head1 EXAMPLE |
| michael@13 | 98 | |
| michael@13 | 99 | $ openpkg release |
| michael@13 | 100 | OpenPKG-CURRENT ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/current/SRC/ |
| michael@13 | 101 | |
| michael@13 | 102 | $ openpkg release --fmt=%t |
| michael@13 | 103 | CURRENT |
| michael@13 | 104 | |
| michael@13 | 105 | $ openpkg release --fmt=%u |
| michael@13 | 106 | ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/current/SRC/ |
| michael@13 | 107 | |
| michael@13 | 108 | $ openpkg release --fmt="OpenPKG %t is located at:\\n%u" |
| michael@13 | 109 | OpenPKG CURRENT is located at: |
| michael@13 | 110 | ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/current/SRC/ |
| michael@13 | 111 | |
| michael@13 | 112 | $ openpkg release --release=2.5.4 --fmt=%t |
| michael@13 | 113 | 2.5-RELEASE |
| michael@13 | 114 | |
| michael@13 | 115 | $ cat /openpkg/etc/openpkg/release |
| michael@13 | 116 | TAG=2-STABLE-20060622 |
| michael@13 | 117 | URL=ftp://ftp.example.com/mirror/openpkg.org/* |
| michael@13 | 118 | |
| michael@13 | 119 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
| michael@13 | 120 | |
| michael@13 | 121 | uuid(8) |
| michael@13 | 122 | |
| michael@13 | 123 | =head1 HISTORY |
| michael@13 | 124 | |
| michael@13 | 125 | The B<openpkg release> command first appeared in B<OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20060622>. |
| michael@13 | 126 | |
| michael@13 | 127 | =cut |
| michael@13 | 128 |
