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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Fix umask settings for non-bash shells for root user
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:36:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150829113607.53818ac4@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150829093317.GB4857@free.fr>

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:33:17 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > > And maybe provide a simple .profile *iff* needed.
> > 
> > Can you check if a .profile is really needed? If so, can you submit a
> > patch series cleaning up .bash_* ?
> 
> After the release, maybe?

Absolutely, this is post 2015.08 stuff.

> > Why? Git doesn't track empty directories, so we have those .empty files
> > all over the place. I don't see what would recreate the root/ directory
> > for the root user if we don't keep it in the skeleton. Am I missing
> > something?
> 
> Right. I was thinking of keeping a .profile in that directory. If there
> is a .profile, there is no need for .empty . If there is no .profile
> (and no other file), we need to keep .empty , yes.

Ah, ok, I see. We're on the same line then. Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-29  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-15 14:20 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Fix umask settings for non-bash shells for root user Petr Vorel
2015-08-29  8:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-08-29  9:20   ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-08-29  9:29     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-08-29  9:33       ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-08-29  9:36         ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-08-29 10:07     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-08-29 11:44       ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-10-03 21:34         ` Maxime Hadjinlian

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