| Summary: | Adding --disable-send-postcard-to-developer to the afterstep ebuilds | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sven Wegener <swegener> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Aaron Walker (RETIRED) <ka0ttic> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | gentoo.org |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Are you sure it's doing it during compile? It's a bug if so, because the email is warned about during compile, but actually only supposed to be sent when a user's dir is created. I'm working on a more privacy friendly version anyway. Thanks, n8 this is all optional at runtime now. when a user first uses afterstep on an account, it will ask him, much like pine and others, whether they want to send the postcard. so ... it's fixed. 2.00.04 is in cvs. |
I'd like to have --disable-send-postcard-to-developer added to the econf line for the afterstep ebuilds. Reasons: 1. During src_compile afterstep tries to send that mail, I guess it's called by one of the Makefiles. If the following conditions are met this breaks sandbox: - ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage/homedir/.afterstep doesn't exist (precondition for afterstep to send that mail) - The MTA (for me exim) is configured to log things in /var/log (this causes the violation) 2. Information disclosure as according to the configure output the generated mail contains compiler and kernel version among several other things. Sending this mail shouldn't be the default for our users, who certainly don't know that afterstep sends that email, if their not familar with afterstep.