Re: [gentooppc-dev] sandbox

[Olivier Reisch]

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On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:26, David Chamberlain wrote:
> Hi Olivier
>
> You can put "sandbox" in the FEATURES line of your make.conf.
>
> Portage normally installs ebuilds in 4 stages:
>
> unpack - unpack the source into
> /var/tmp/portage/packagenameandversion/work/ compile - configure and
> compile the source, still in that directory install - go through the
> install stage, but install entirely into
> /var/tmp/portage/packagenameandversion/image/
> merge - if all this works, transfer the files from image/ into user's
> filesystem, but don't overwrite protected config files.
>
> If you use the command "ebuild" you can step through this process stage
> by stage.
>
> It's a big part of the gentoo philosophy that your filesystem should not
> be touched until the last (merge) stage, but a lot of programs will
> attempt to install outside of image/, even when the ebuild specifies
> DESTDIR or uses other tricks.  I was having this problem with pbbuttons,
> since the Makefile has an extra script at the end to install the config
> file, and it was determined to leave the confines of image/.
>
> If you have sandbox turned on, emerge/ebuild will catch such violations
> and stop the install; and usually alert you pretty clearly to what went
> wrong.  If you don't have it turned on, the install will probably
> continue fine, but other things might go wrong.  Amongst other things,
> config files installed into /etc like this will overwrite older ones -
> not a good thing.
>
> It looks like it's turned off by default in the ppc profile, so I was
> wondering if this was done for a reason - i.e. it's broken on ppc - or
> if I'm the only one that's having a problem with it.  If you want to try
> it out, I don't think it will break anything permanently - if it freezes
> portage, as it did for me, you just have to turn it off again.  If it is
> broken, that's a problem for ppc development - I'm OK because I can
> double-check ebuilds on my PC, but we don't want to require that of
> everyone writing ebuilds on a ppc.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
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Hello,

Well, I'll just turn it on and see what happens... :P

Greets,
Doc.

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