Re: 100.chksetuid and PR 178005

On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/01/2026 15:08, Michael Grimm wrote:
>
> > I found a 13 year old PR
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178005 from ngie@ about
> unnecessary noise in daily security mails whenever an installworld has been
> run. Nowadays with pkgbase being used daily|frequently this issue might be
> even more pressing.
> >
> > I do have an alternative 100.chksetuid running at my site that more or
> less does what that PR is all about.
> >
> > Questions (because I never done that before):
> >
> > #) Should I file a patch to this PR?
> > #) Or should I open a new PR?
> > #) And: would that be of interest at all?
> I think the patch to the original PR is the right way to go. But
> periodic looks like unwanted child. It may take 15 years to have some
> patches accepted. (PR 86388)
>

Yes. That's kinda true. But maybe we need more targeted bug busting /
hackathons?

Warner