How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home

Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by wander_homer on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:58AM (#25055897)

What? Are you maybe talking about the extent of downstream patching? Because Arch Linux does insert it's own "junk" into upstream, but probably to a lesser extent than Ubuntu or maybe Debian.

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by veeti on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:43AM (#25056973)

Compare:

https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/tre...

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/f17cbb1c...

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by GlitchMr on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:28AM (#25059113)

Just to be clear, because it's non-obvious, Arch Linux has a single patch (not stored in .patch file however), but all things considered it's very simple.

    sed -i '/dbus_conf_dir/s/sysconfdir/datadir/g' meson.build

This likely is needed for the package to build to begin with.

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by wander_homer on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:02PM (#25063548)

I'm not sure what this supposed to demonstrate. I literally said that Arch Linux probably applies downstream patches to a lesser degree than Ubuntu. My point was that the person I responded to made it sound as if Arch Linux doesn't do any patching, which is obviously false since they have dozens if not hundreds of packages with downstream patches.

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by eeZah7Ux on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:54AM (#25068840)

What you call "junk" in Debian are security and stability fixes.

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