Bug 106094 – Add a use-flag to ethereal ebuild to disable saving files

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rouslan Solomakhin 2005-09-15 12:40:37 UTC]

I would like to submit the attached patch to ethereal-0.10.12 complete with a
patch to ethereal-0.10.12.ebuild which will disable saving files in ethereal.

The reason I need this is to enable regular users in a classroom environment to
take traces of network traffic, without malicious users having a possibility to
overwrite vital files like /etc/fstab or /etc/rc.conf.

The way the patch to ethereal-0.10.12 works is it pops up a message saying
"Savind disabled" when a user saves a file. The patch to ethereal-0.10.12.ebuild
adds a use-flag "nosave", which (when enabled) applies the patch to source.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Rouslan Solomakhin 2005-09-15 12:42:09 UTC]

Created attachment 68526 [details, diff]
ethereal-0.10.12-nosave.patch

Patch to ethereal-0.10.12 to disable saving files.

[Comment 2 Rouslan Solomakhin 2005-09-15 12:43:53 UTC]

Created attachment 68527 [details, diff]
ethereal-0.10.12-to-0.10.12-r1.ebuild.patch

A patch to ethereal-0.10.12.ebuild to have a use-flag "nosave", which applies
patch ethereal-0.10.12-nosave.patch.

[Comment 3 Marco Morales 2005-09-19 21:15:03 UTC]

Thanks for your contrib, but those kinda hacks are preferable submitted 
directly to ethereal development. Thanks again n e way :)