Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 05:37:12PM +0200, Mattia Verga wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I saw the changes in packaging guidelines related to PIE:
>>
>> /If your package meets the following criteria you *MUST* enable the
>> PIE compiler flags: /
>>
>>  * /Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started
>>    and keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand
>>    and quit on idle. /
>>
>>  * /Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities. /
>>
>>  * /Your package runs as root. /
>
> [from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE]
>
> I'm not sure I understand how to parse this.
>
> - Is the above an 'AND' or an 'OR' set of requirements?

OR.

> - What happens if the program isn't written in C?

If it's not C, C++, etc, it's not applicable.  I don't believe it
applies to other compiled languages.

-J

>
> Rich.
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