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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] enable USE=xattr by default
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:35:28
Message-Id: 561F8F71.1030005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] enable USE=xattr by default by Tobias Klausmann
1 On 10/15/15 4:57 AM, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >> anyone opposed to flipping this flag on by default ?
6 >>
7 >> reference:
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/506198
9 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/556408
10 > No objection, but a bit of a datapoint. I use btrfs on one of my
11 > machines, and that filesystem (apparently) does not support
12 > XATTR_PAX markings. So on every update I get some packages with
13 > message like these:
14 >
15 >>>> Messages generated for package app-emulation/qemu-2.4.0.1 by process 2675 on 20151013-150646 CEST:
16 > LOG: install
17 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-system-aarch64.
18 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-system-alpha.
19 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-system-i386.
20 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-system-x86_64.
21 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-aarch64.
22 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-alpha.
23 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-i386.
24 > Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me qemu-x86_64.
25 >
26 > Two things about this: the message is not really useful, unless I
27 > know what -me does. Also, I never requested anything PaX-ish, I
28 > just don't want to to have SUID binaries when I can avoid it.
29 >
30 > By now the messages are just an annoyance/spam to me, but I
31 > suspect this may be more of a problem for people who have lower
32 > pain thresholds.
33 >
34 > Regards,
35 > Tobias
36 >
37 open a bug because this should work on btrfs.
38
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40 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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