Review Request 128219: No longer allow installing to generic data folder because of security hole.

[Jeremy Whiting]

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(Updated Aug. 15, 2016, 9:49 a.m.)


Status
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This change has been marked as submitted.


Review request for KDE Frameworks, David Faure and Richard Moore.


Changes
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Submitted with commit 9746ff5553db0f3e869b0a9970e1304554e6f7fe by Jeremy Whiting to branch master.


Repository: knewstuff


Description
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When an application uses TargetDir=/ or StandardResource=data give a warning on the terminal and don't use the chosen location.


Diffs
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  src/core/installation.cpp a027418 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128219/diff/


Testing
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No testing done yet, will write a unit test of some kind if this is the right direction.


Thanks,

Jeremy Whiting

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