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From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <ml@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pax-utils.eclass: elog -> einfo?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:00:40
Message-Id: 20110317215944.1fcd0450@athlong2.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pax-utils.eclass: elog -> einfo? by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:29 -0400
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 03/13/2011 04:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > > On Saturday, March 12, 2011 07:36:35 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
6 > >> I wonder why pax-utils.eclass uses elog instead of just einfo. An
7 > >> example message looks like this:
8 > >>
9 > >> * Fallback PaX marking -m
10 > >> * out/Release/chrome
11 > >>
12 > >> IMHO it's not very useful in the elog messages, but maybe there are
13 > >> scenarios in which it is useful.
14 > >>
15 > >> My idea is to just replace all elogs with einfos in
16 > >> pax-utils.eclass. What do you think?
17 > > i think it depends on the person. for people who dont use
18 > > grsec/PaX, they probably could care less and never see this
19 > > output. for people who do, they probably do want to see this.
20 > >
21 > > maybe have it `elog` only when [[ $(uname -r) == *-grsec* ]]
22 > > -mike
23 >
24 > blueness@yellowness ~ $ uname -r
25 > 2.6.37-hardened-r5
26 >
27 > so you need == *-hardened-*
28
29 I'd suggest doing something like:
30
31 use hardened && elog ...
32
33 There's an argument that it's better to make decisions according to
34 make.conf settings rather than the host system configuration, not
35 least to cater for people doing cross-builds. Assuming cross builds
36 work at all; I've not tried that for a long time.
37
38 Kev.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pax-utils.eclass: elog -> einfo? Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>