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[Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sweet.


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Daniel Mercer <dmercer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks -- I'll check this out in the morning!
>
> I've got a patch for multi-distribution bootstrap and some of the other
> things we've discussed sitting in our local github waiting for outbound
> review. I'll integrate these changes and hopefully be able to issue a pull
> request for you to review by Thurs at the latest.
>
> dlm
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Try it now, trunk should be closer to what u want ;)
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So the euid check is being done in python code also, wouldn't hurt to
>> move it out of the smithy script since it will fail later in anvils "main
>> program".
>>
>> Usage I think can come out if we do that without root being needed. See
>> if u comment out the euid check in the bash script, think it will work
>> correctly already :-)
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Mercer <dmercer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>  On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> 4. This might get more involved, alot of anvils need for sudo is all the
>>> pkg stuff it does, all the files it adjusts, all the 'python setup.py
>>> --develop' and so on, the initial bootstrap is just like phase 0 of these
>>> kinds of commands. I'm sure there are ways around it (ie the user entering
>>> the sudo user all the time) just thinking that they may have to enter the
>>> sudo user so much we might as well start them off in the sudo user (as it
>>> does right now, where it starts as sudo then drops back down to the user
>>> running and re-elevates priviligies as needed). Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Good points. Maybe a simpler first step would be to allow smithy to emit
>>> usage without running as root. This would mean moving or duplicating the
>>> euid check into the python code and certainly isn't at the top of the list
>>> of things to do.
>>>
>>> Everything is always up for consideration, no code is written in stone
>>> :-P
>>> Write a blueprint if u want, or not, get your org. to give u CLA rights
>>> or whatever, haha.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll hopefully hear something this week -- fingers crossed! ;-)
>>>
>>> dlm
>>>
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