[apparmor] [RFC] handling XDG user directories

[Jamie Strandboge]

On 08/05/2013 06:26 PM, Seth Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:59:14PM -0500, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> I have written two tools that we may want to optionally ship[3]:
>>  * apparmor-xdg-dirs-simple.py: this takes a locale as an argument and outputs
>>    to stdout something suitable for dropping into /etc/apparmor.d/xdg-dirs.d.
>>    [...]
>>  * apparmor-xdg-dirs.py: this takes the output of 'locale -a' and outputs to
>>    stdout something suitable for dropping into /etc/apparmor.d/xdg-dirs.d as
>>    well, but tries to be a little smarter and only outputs unique translations,
>>    skipping the 'C' locale (since the C locale dirs are presumed to already be
>>    in /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-dirs). Eg, on an Ubuntu 13.10 system with
>>    the en, fr and zn locales installed:
> 
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> Would we, as a distribution, want to hook this up in some automatic
> fashion to new locale creation? It feels like the polite thing to do,
> and admins may well welcome one fewer task to perform.
> 
Yes that's the plan, though I'm not completely sure where yet-- my first guess
in Ubuntu would be adding a dpkg trigger to apparmor to run this on translation
installation, but I plan to ask around first for the best place. :)

-- 
Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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