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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:11:01
Message-Id: 20070111090754.txpkl51goo884kg4@horde.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT by Jakub Moc
1 Quoting Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>:
2 > Georgi Georgiev napsal(a):
3 >> I looked at the diff and it replaces export SANDBOX_ON=0 with
4 >> RESTRICT="sandbox". It seems that the problem is older than that
5 >> revision.
6 >
7 > No, the gcl problem didn't exist until vapier "fixed" the ebuild. I
8 > still fail to see why RESTRICT=sandbox is any better than the
9 > undocumented `export SANDBOX_ON=0` hack (which basically shouldn't be
10 > used anywhere in the tree anyway, ideally)...
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12 Alright, I don't know what the "problem" is in your opinion, but the
13 way I see it is that the ebuild wants to touch stuff outside the
14 sandbox and *that* is the problem. There were obviously two solutions,
15 well, workarounds -- an undocumented variable and the RESTRICT.
16 *Neither* one is better than the other. What vapier did was make the
17 problem visible, which doesn't mean that he introduced it.
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19 Further, by adopting ACCEPT_RESTRICT, it would be possible to be able to say:
20 ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-sandbox: Do not let any ebuild touch anything outside
21 the sandbox.
22 ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-userpriv: Do not let any ebuild run with elevated privileges.
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