Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:27:28 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>,
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] testing/sword: add new package
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:22:49 -0700
Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:51:21AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:44:04 -0700
> > > Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Sword is a library for free Bible software.
> > >> It can also be used for other books.
> > > ...
> > >
> > 
> > Since this package was added to testing, there was a discussion on an
> > IRC channel where this software became interesting to test, as I
> > wanted to factcheck some things being claimed on it.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I discovered that after installing sword and
> > sword-utils, and then running:
> > 
> > user$ installmgr -init
> > [...]
> > user$ installmgr -r CrossWire
> > user$ installmgr -ri CrossWire KJV
> > 
> > Then doing a query using diatheke:
> > 
> > user$ diatheke -b KJV -k ...
> > 
> > Nothing came up.  Running strace(1) on diatheke showed it required the
> > data files to be installed as root before the software would function
> > correctly.
> > 
> > With the software configured as root, it functions correctly, however
> > I believe this is a policy violation as software is typically supposed
> > to be accessible to the user without configuration systemwide, and
> > installmgr does *something* with the data it downloads when running as
> > a user.
> 
> installmgr installs "modules" to a configured location.
> This location is set by DataPath and extended by AddDataPath in the
> [INSTALL] section.
> /etc/sword.conf points it at /usr/share/sword; this is not writeable.
> I'm not aware of any way to point it at a sane default that everyone can use.
> If there are NO config files, it will look for ~/.sword/mods.d, and install
> into ~/.sword/modules.
> 
> installmgr won't work right unless it can find mods.conf or a writeable
> mods.d directory in the DataPath.
> If it can figure out where it /should/ put modules, it will run,
> downloading the modules to a per-repository location.
> Then it will move them into location or silently delete them.
> 
> Now I need to figure out what's the right fix.
> I guess installmgr should error out if it can't write somewhere.
> Debian's approach is to require at least one package containing a
> SWORD module.

How about using /var/lib/sword as default and have a
'sword' group with write permissions there?

They you can just add your users to the sword group to be able to
install the data files.

-nc



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