Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:10:12 -0700 From: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> To: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: arb patch to tell who installed port and when Message-ID: <19990825111012.A73932@area51.fremont.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <vqclnb0ztpe.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 03:42:37PM -0700 References: <19990824144734.A73970@rucus.ru.ac.za> <XFMail.990824121955.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> <19990824213017.A99983@rucus.ru.ac.za> <vqclnb0ztpe.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 03:42:37PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>
> I think it is useful, but let's design the whole thing first. Here
> are the comments/questions that popped up to my head:
>
> @ Do something sensible if ${USER} is not defined. (Maybe use
> `whoami` in that case)
How about ignoring ${USER} and using /usr/bin/logname.
> @ What will pkg_info show? Make sure it doesn't coredump if the
> files are not there. :)
Information for foobar-1.0:
Installed by:
joe-user
Description:
...
>
> @ I'm assuming pkg_add will create a new "user" file with the
> appropriate information (same criteria: $USER if defined, `whoami`
> if not), and a new "when" file at the installation date.
How about using getlogin() to find out who.
> @ No change to pkg_create?
I can't think of anything to add here.
> @ Anything that pkg_delete has to do? Maybe warn if the user is
> different from the one that added it? (Just throwing out all
> possibilities -- I don't think that's very useful. :)
Warning could be an option but I'd like a flag to turn off warning.
I'm not sure if warning should be on by default or not.
Michael
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