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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/12/2013 02:59 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> On 08/11/2013 09:12 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I know that basically the App ID format is this:
>>
>>   $(pkg)_$(app)_$(version)
>>
>> But what I haven't seen is a formal definition of things like which characters
>> are allowed in each section.  Does such a thing exist?  I'm guessing everyone
>> has coded different implementation of that check, we should probably make sure
>> that they align.
>>
> 
> $(pkg)_$(app)_$(version) is also what is used for the AppArmor profile name, so
> yes, we need to agree. :) Based on conversations elsewhere, this is what we have
> defined for AppArmor easyprof[1]:
> 
> "... a name that consists only of lower case letters (a-z), upper case letters
> (A-Z), digits (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, periods (.), colons (:),
> underscores (_) and tildes (~) (essentially a combination of the allowed
> characters for Ubuntu package names and versions, plus underscores)"
> 
> Click uses deb files and dpkg underneath, so many of the rules come from
> Debian/Ubuntu policy. Ie:
>  * 'pkg' is any legal character for a Debian package[2]
>  * 'version' is any legal character in a Debian version[3]
>  * 'app' doesn't have an any Debian policy surrounding it that I am aware of,
>    but we've defined it elsewhere as anything in the set of characters in
>    "profile name" (above) except '_' since it is a delimiter
> 
Whoops, 'app' should include [A-Z] as well.

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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