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FS#3908 - Cleanups to Privoxy

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kurt Basil Cox (basilburn) - Monday, 06 February 2006, 02:47 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 07 March 2006, 21:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Just a few necessary cleanups for the privoxy PKGBUILD, rc script and install file.

a) It especially needs a logrotate script as the log files fill up very quickly.
b) In the PKGBUILD, userdel removes exim user instead of privoxy user.
c) The options in the rc script are split into a conf.d script plus redirecting stderr to /dev/null
d) The log file should probably be created with 660 permissions

(application/octet-stream)    PKGBUILD (1.4 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    privoxy.install (0.4 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    privoxy.rcd (0.7 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    privoxy.confd (0.1 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    privoxy.logrotated (0.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 15:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Thanks for your contribution.
Comment by Kurt Basil Cox (basilburn) - Saturday, 25 February 2006, 09:45 GMT
I have edited the PKGBUILD and I am now running this on a test system.

Please find new attachements with the final changes.
   privoxy.tgz (1.4 KiB)
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Tuesday, 07 March 2006, 21:41 GMT
(This is about the original package from Judd)
/etc/cron.daily/shadow complains about Privoxy, because the install script adds a privoxy user with /var/spool/privoxy homedir but the package doesn't contain that directory.

Regarding b) from above comment: Does every packager assign UIDs/GIDs for daemon packages as he sees fit, or is there any common policy for this? (I hope so)
Comment by Kurt Basil Cox (basilburn) - Wednesday, 08 March 2006, 18:39 GMT
Yes, there were a few errors in the original PKGBUILD. It seems like the template for creating the privoxy was derived from that for exim.

My latest attachment should create the user = privoxy with homedir = / similar to the user - nobody.

regarding b) privoxy needs the privoxy user to build, and by default it runs as the privoxy user as well. It wasn't arbitrary assignment by the packager. One would have to hack the privoxy's build system to change it - not really worth it.
Comment by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Thursday, 09 March 2006, 22:32 GMT
@byte: Yes, we have a UID/GID Database. Every dev should use it.

The removal of the exim user is by mistika as basilburn mentioned.

@basilburn: Thanks for your contribution. I will use them in the next release.

Jürgen

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