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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox access violations while running matlab binary installer
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:24:43
Message-Id: 5339CDB9.3060000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox access violations while running matlab binary installer by Kfir Lavi
1 On 31/03/14 21:24, Kfir Lavi wrote:
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5 > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o
6 > <mailto:ssuominen@g.o>> wrote:
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9 > On 31/03/14 21:15, Kfir Lavi wrote:
10 > > Hi all,
11 > > I'm trying to create an ebuild to install matlab MCR on gentoo.
12 > > The installer InstallShileld try to create directory
13 > > /root/InstallShield ;-)
14 > > mkdir is run by java binary that try this. So I have no access to
15 > > change it.
16 > > There is no option to provide InstallShield it's relative
17 > install path.
18 > > I can provide matlab's install path and other options, but this made
19 > > permanent /root/InstallShield
20 > >
21 > > What can I do?
22 > >
23 > > Thanks,
24 > > Kfir
25 >
26 > Try the gentoo-user mailing list or forums. Nothing we can do from
27 > Gentoo's side, ie. wrong mailing list.
28 >
29 > Is there a way to contain this violation and provide a pseudo
30 > permissions to use /root/InstallShield
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32 Have you looked into using `addpredict` or `addwrite`?
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34 For examples, check,
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36 # cd /usr/portage
37 # grep addpredict */*/*.ebuild
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39 And same for addwrite.
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41 (And I still believe this discussion should be in the gentoo-user ML,
42 but since others have replied too, might as well.)