Conflict with jailtest utility

[reinerh]

The new jailtest utility conflicts with a utility of the same name included in uml-utilities (Debian), uml_utilities (Fedora, Arch AUR).
They are installed in the same location (/usr/bin/jailtest). This means for packaging, that a Breaks relationship needs to be declared, which means that firejail can not be co-installed with the uml-utilities package. This is very user-unfriendly and should be avoided if possible. As it has not been released yet, avoiding a conflict is still possible.

Is this tool actually needed globally? Or would it be sufficient to have it in a private directory (like /usr/lib/firejail/, where other helper tools like fldd are located)?

If the tool really is supposed to be invoked by users manually, could we think of a different name to avoid a conflict?

Alternatively I'm also considering not shipping it in the Debian package.

Any opinions?

Ping @netblue30

[glitsj16]

Is this tool actually needed globally?

Personally I would answer 'yes'. Now that --audit is gone this tool is pretty nice to check running sandboxes.

If the tool really is supposed to be invoked by users manually, could we think of a different name to avoid a conflict?

firejailtest, firetest, jailcheck - just a few ideas (didn't check for any name collisions)...

[netblue30]

Thanks, I'll move it to "jailcheck". How do we check for collisions?

[kmk3]

@glitsj16 commented 2 days ago:

firejailtest, firetest, jailcheck - just a few ideas (didn't check for any
name collisions)...

@netblue30 commented 3 hours ago:

Thanks, I'll move it to "jailcheck". How do we check for collisions?

On Arch, it can be done with with pacman -F:

$ pacman -F firejail
community/firejail 0.9.64.4-1
    usr/bin/firejail
    usr/share/bash-completion/completions/firejail
$ pacman -F jailtest firejailtest firetest jailcheck

I doesn't check the AUR though.

And according to the Pacman Rosetta, on Debian this can be done with:

apt-file search

[rusty-snake]

And for Fedora it is dnf provides <PROGRAM|PATH>.

$ en_US-locale dnf provides jailcheck
Error: No Matches found

[reinerh]

And according to the Pacman Rosetta, on Debian this can be done with:

apt-file search

Yes, that's correct. There is also no conflict in Debian:

$ apt-file search jailcheck
$

[netblue30]

jailcheck all set!