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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: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:36:50
Message-Id: 563DE23E.7050809@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Globally masking the sssd USE-flag on sudo and enabling it on supported architectures only by Markos Chandras
1 On 11/04/2015 05:37 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > On 11/04/2015 11:34 AM, lejonet wrote:
3 >> Hi gentoo-dev,
4 >>
5 >> I recently had a bout with sudo and sssd, and found that the problem was that
6 >> sudo wasn't sssd aware and the reason we don't have a USE-flag for that is due
7 >> to some lingering bugs.
8 >>
9 >> To partially solve this I propose that we mask the sssd USE-flag,
10 >> globally and only unmask it on supported architectures that we have already
11 >> confirmed it working on (like amd64 and x86).
12 >> This prevents us from having to withdraw keywords on a rather important
13 >> package on minor arches on which sssd and sudo haven't been tested yet.
14 >>
15 >> Dropping keywords on sudo seems unnecessary and very disruptive but allowing
16 >> sssd bugs to linger isn't a great solution either[1], as in this particular
17 >> issue, a sudo bug is depending on the lingering sssd bug.[2]
18 >>
19 >> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540540
20 >> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525674
21 >>
22 >
23 > fwiw, it sounds good to me
24 >
25
26 so are you going to do it or should I?
27
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Markos Chandras

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