cvs commit: ports UPDATING

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:47:41PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:01 +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > lofi        2004-12-29 20:01:19 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     .                    UPDATING 
> >   Log:
> >   Add a note about checking the ICE socket directory in case KDE refuses
> >   to start after upgrading to Xorg 6.8.1 (which for some reason that's
> >   escaping me makes .ICE-unix/ not owned by root a fatal error).
> 
> This is because for security that directory does need to be owned by
> root.  The conclusion of various discussions and confcalls was that
> there was no way to make .ICE-unix be owned by root reasonably from
> X.Org's side, so distros would have to be responsible for it.  I guess
> the question is whether the rc script that does that, along with
> the /tmp cleanup, should live in the base system or in the port.  My
> opinion is that an x11 setup script should actually live in the base
> system, as there's no other sensible central place to put it, unless we
> were to have a single "X11 common misc stuff" port.

I think there's a PR about this.

Kris
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