Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 12 April 2013 13:20:11 Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> > i don't know what you mean.  if the ebuild detects devpts being mounted
> > and the mount is incorrect, it will die.  if you don't have devpts
> > mounted at all, then it assumes you know what you're doing.
>
> What I am saying is that you make no distinction between build
> environment and deployment environment. Quite a few users build their
> Gentoo systems in a chroot. In that case, whole /dev, or its portions
> (including /dev/pts) can be bind-mounts from the host filesystem, and
> /dev/pts does not need to have the correct permissions. However, you
> *would* see such a bind-mount as a devpts mount in /proc/mounts. So
> why not print a warning — what's the point of dying in pkg_preinst?

unless you have a good reason for having the host devpts being mounted wrong, 
i'm not inclined to support this.  every major distro that matters that i know 
of does it this way and has for a long time: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo.

if it encourages people to fix their host distro to also not suck, well that's 
just a bonus.
-mike