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Re: System integrity protection

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On 2015-09-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> Note that /usr/share (to be protected) contains a fair amount of public
> domain software like bison, cups, emacs, freeradius, ftpd, groff, java,
> mailman, man, squirrelmail and others.

Only in default installations that have not been tuned for El Capitan.

> So if you want to patch/upgrade any of those, you need to turn off SIP,
>
> install the new version in /usr/local and delete the ones in /usr/share.
> The man directories can be an issue. By default, apple also puts in the
> path: MANPATH /usr/local/share/man whichg remains accessible after SIP,
> it is just a question of ensuring software that installs puts its man
> pages there.

Not necessarily. Many packages will likely be modified to avoid
/usr/share on Darwin for El Capitan. And for those that do not, it's
simple enough to specify an alternate location when compiling them. It's
not as big a deal as you make it out to be.

> It is good for Apple to specify where optional sofwtare should go. But a
> bit radical to introduce this so quickly and abruptly.

Nonsense. They've given plenty of notice.

> Apple should make an app that you can run prior to installing El Capitan
> which will report on how "compatible" your system is and which files
> will be deleted or moved out of Apple's newly protected directories.

You'll know which items have been moved after installation.

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System integrity protection JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-29 22:56 -0400
  Re: System integrity protection JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-29 23:58 -0400
    Re: System integrity protection JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-30 00:02 -0400
  Re: System integrity protection Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-30 16:27 +0000
    Re: System integrity protection JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-30 12:50 -0400
      Re: System integrity protection Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-30 16:54 +0000
  Re: System integrity protection Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-09-30 16:49 -0400
    Re: System integrity protection JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-30 21:24 -0400

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