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On 04/27/2011 10:46 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> Samuli Suominen posted on Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:56:06 +0300 as excerpted: |
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>> You have 24 hours to comment on this news item. Sorry to put it so |
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>> bluntly but this is required for major security bug (#364973). |
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>> See attachment. |
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>> Title: Upgrade to GLIB 2.28 Author: GNOME Team <gnome@g.o> |
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>> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-04-26 Revision: 1 |
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>> News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <dev-libs/glib-2.28 |
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>> The way of setting default URI handlers has changed since |
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>> dev-libs/glib-2.28 and above. If you used the GConf registry to set them |
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>> before, they will now be ignored. |
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>> If you use GNOME, you must upgrade gnome-session and |
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>> gnome-control-center and set your default browser/mail-client again. |
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>> If you don't use GNOME, you should ensure that the file |
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>> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list has the following content: |
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>> |
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>> [Added Associations] |
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>> x-scheme-handler/http=$browser_name.desktop; |
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>> x-scheme-handler/https=$browser_name.desktop; |
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>> x-scheme-handler/mailto=$mailclient_name.desktop; |
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>> Replace $browser_name.desktop and $mailclient_name.desktop with the |
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>> appropriate file from /usr/share/applications that can handle |
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>> http/https/mailto URIs. |
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>> Please make sure that your browsers and mail clients have been upgraded |
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>> to the latest stable versions before doing all this. |
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> This is unclear. Should non-gnome users (I'm a kde user) set this to |
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> prepare for the upgrade, or as a workaround until one actually completes |
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> the upgrade? |
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It's a permanent thing... I think the item is clear on that... "The |
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default way has changed", no where implying this would go away or be |
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temporary, or a workaround |
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The KDE desktop should set those mime's already, if you have selected |
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default browser/mailclient from the desktops GUI apps. If not, file a |
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bug for the KDE people. |
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> The question comes up, because I'm on 2.28.6, which should be above the |
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> threshold for the notice, and I have that file in my home dir, but do NOT |
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> have those entries in it, which the notice appears to imply I should. |
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The news item is targeted for stable users... presumably ~arch users |
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know what they are doing. Hence the Display-If-Installed. |
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> Second point: To clarify, you're asking presumably admin users to set |
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> this in their homedir config, right? There's absolutely nothing in the |
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> proposed news item (and no link with it as a further detail) explaining |
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> this rather unprecedented tampering with a user's private homedir config, |
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> nor anything explaining what happens if it isn't done. Should an admin by |
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> arbitrary fiat edit the entries for *ALL* users? Just his own? |
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> If this is intended to be a system level policy edit, why isn't it *AT* |
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> they system level? If there is indeed technical reason to go editing |
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> individual user's homedir configs, then PLEASE make it MUCH CLEARER just |
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> WHICH user configs need to be edited (presumably all of them), and provide |
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> some justification, technical or otherwise, why editing the user config is |
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> the chosen solution. |
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> Note that as I implied above, a further details link is very likely |
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> appropriate, since news items are normally quite brief, serving in many |
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> cases more as an alert to check the details elsewhere than a full |
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> explanation and instructions. |
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Addressed the system-wide vs. user defined issue in the new draft |
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(responded to the original post of this thread with it). |
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Has a link now too. |