Bug 52119 – Updated man2html ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rob Kruus 2004-05-26 11:34:03 UTC]

Updated man2html ebuild to use webapp eclass (since I didn't want to install apache).
It also fixes a bug in the mansec script which fails -- creates a huge empty file in /var/man2html (~500M)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Rob Kruus 2004-05-26 11:34:56 UTC]

Created attachment 32089 [details]
Updated ebuild -- uses webapp eclass

[Comment 2 Rob Kruus 2004-05-26 11:36:42 UTC]

Created attachment 32090 [details, diff]
Patch to make mansec behave

The uniq is because the mansec path includes a symbolic link (though I could
have dropped the follow...)

[Comment 3 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-05-31 05:15:08 UTC]

Thanks -- nice submission. In CVS but masked in package.mask pending bug # 52544 (no FollowSymLinks on /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin).

[Comment 4 Rob Kruus 2004-05-31 07:54:12 UTC]

yeah, I get the same problem here with mini_httpd running in chroot mode.  I assume it has to do with the webapp.eclass not installing execuatables into cgi-bin.  I tried to install the files into the directly into the cgi-bin but found they were not executable.  Maybe I'll try with a config section to change permissions of the files.

[Comment 5 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-05-31 08:05:55 UTC]

Rob,

I think this is a generic webapp / cgi-bin problem. Many webservers won't follow symlinks in cgi-bin because it's a potential security hole. The workaround is to configure your webserver to allow them. I can tell you how to do it for apache, but don't know anything about mini_httpd.

Regards,

Tom

[Comment 6 Rob Kruus 2004-05-31 08:36:39 UTC]

i have an option in mini_http to run in a chroot (/var/www/..) or not.  Having it run outside the chroot is no problemn (the symlinks work).  And since it's installed on laptop running on the local interface only it's not problem not running in the chroot environment :-)

[Comment 7 Rob Kruus 2004-05-31 10:44:34 UTC]

Created attachment 32397 [details]
some post install additions

This version find files in the /var/www tree and changes the cgi-bin/man files
ot executable.	It works if you have webapp-config setup to install
config-owned files, not the default virtual.
I kind of goes against the whole webapp.eclass idea, but in this case, it
resolves 
the cgi-bin / link idea.

[Comment 8 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-06-04 11:07:08 UTC]

Thanks for this Rob, but I'll wait for the webapp-config fix so it can be done properly.

[Comment 9 Tom Payne (RETIRED) 2004-06-27 03:23:15 UTC]

Now unmasked from package.mask.