Re: [gentoo-dev] making ebuilds with interactive options (bug #34243)

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 19:00, Andrea Barisani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> making interactive ebuild is always considered bad because it breaks 'emerge
> -u world'. However when building samhain ebuild (you can find it at
> http://www.gentoo.org/~lcars/ebuilds/) I have find necessary to include
> interactive options, that's because this integrity checkers needs a number of
> parameters that must be configured at compile time for preventing tampering.
>
> These parameters includes: server IP address, binary name, a XOR value, PGP
> key fingerprint and so on. The parameters are needed if some IUSE flags of
> the ebuild are on, without those flags the package perform a default
> installation without interactive questions.
>
> The question is, since interactive is a bad thing how would you treat this
> kind of apps? What we should do with my ebuild? I really think that all these
> features should be implemented, after all we use Gentoo because we can
> install apps the way we like right? :) It would be a shame not allow users to
> use all samhain features.
>
> I was thinking about a way to storing the parameters on the first emerge and
> then using them automatically when updating, anyone has an elegant way in
> mind for doing that?

I would create an /etc/conf.d/samhain file and store the configuration
in variables there.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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