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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.env or package.cflags
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:29:08
Message-Id: 200405201929.05712.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] package.env or package.cflags by Lars Strojny
1 On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:15, Lars Strojny wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 > today I`m setting up a Server in Gentoo and I want to do a lot
4 > of security stuff there. Within that, I`ve want to compile "su"
5 > as a static binary. But there isn`t an option which automatically
6 > handles such stuff in portage. So I want to know if it is possible
7 > to add something like an portage.env, where users can adjust the
8 > env-vars for each package. Maybe it could be in a format like this
9 >
10 > =sys-apps/shadow CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -static";FOO="bar"
11 >
12 > Nice Greetings
13 > Lars Strojny
14
15 According to /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc, there is a 'static' USE flag
16 available to handle this sort of need. I don't know whether sudo supports it
17 or not at this time. Might be worth taking a look.
18
19 Best regards,
20 Stu
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22 Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o
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25
26 GnuPG key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu
27 Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C
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Re: [gentoo-dev] package.env or package.cflags Lars Strojny <lars@×××××××.net>