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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Globally masking the sssd USE-flag on sudo and enabling it on supported architectures only
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 17:37:38
Message-Id: 563A4243.70509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Globally masking the sssd USE-flag on sudo and enabling it on supported architectures only by lejonet
1 On 11/04/2015 11:34 AM, lejonet wrote:
2 > Hi gentoo-dev,
3 >
4 > I recently had a bout with sudo and sssd, and found that the problem was that
5 > sudo wasn't sssd aware and the reason we don't have a USE-flag for that is due
6 > to some lingering bugs.
7 >
8 > To partially solve this I propose that we mask the sssd USE-flag,
9 > globally and only unmask it on supported architectures that we have already
10 > confirmed it working on (like amd64 and x86).
11 > This prevents us from having to withdraw keywords on a rather important
12 > package on minor arches on which sssd and sudo haven't been tested yet.
13 >
14 > Dropping keywords on sudo seems unnecessary and very disruptive but allowing
15 > sssd bugs to linger isn't a great solution either[1], as in this particular
16 > issue, a sudo bug is depending on the lingering sssd bug.[2]
17 >
18 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540540
19 > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525674
20 >
21
22 fwiw, it sounds good to me
23
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Markos Chandras

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