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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mbox -- looks sort of interesting
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:36:33
Message-Id: lddcg4$mi5$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mbox -- looks sort of interesting by Rich Freeman
1 On 02/12/2014 01:03 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On 02/11/2014 11:34 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> One of those ideas I've always wanted to implement is to create a
6 >>> portage hook/patch that looks at the dependencies for the package
7 >>> being built and configures sandbox to block read-access to anything
8 >>> that wasn't explicitly declared. Sandbox works for read-access as
9 >>> well as write-access, though in /etc/sandbox.d/00default read-access
10 >>> is enabled everywhere by default.
11 >>>
12 >>> And, yes, it could be configured to allow access to @system...
13 >> That's pretty much what emerge_strict does.
14 >
15 > What is emerge_strict? The Google is failing me here...
16 >
17 > Rich
18 >
19 >
20 Sorry, I should have clarified. It's provided by autodep, extending the
21 dependency analysis by denying access to any files not part of the
22 specified dependencies and @system.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mbox -- looks sort of interesting Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>