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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:11:37AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> On 06/17/04 pclouds wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I have an idea of using something like checkinstall/sandbox to |
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> > automate src_install phase without making patch for it. |
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> > Here it is: |
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> > we do "make install" in chrooted env. |
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> > There is nothing in chrooted env, so it won't work. The |
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> > idea is to make chrooted env as same as the real env. We preload a lib |
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> > to monitor file access before chrooting. The lib is much like |
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> > sandbox/installwatch. When it encounters a file access, it will make a |
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> > link from the original file to DESTDIR so that programs running inside |
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> > chrooted env can see it. |
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> Why the chroot and linking stuff? This will get extremely annoying. How |
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> about programs the Makefile has to run (cp, make, install, chmod, |
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> ...). |
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I thought it would open /bin/cp and relevant libraries when executing |
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cp, so i could monitor them. I was wrong because it is executed inside |
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execve syscall. new execve in preloaded library have to make sure all |
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relevant librabries are available :P jail or strace sources may help. |
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> > Another problem is when programs modify/delete a file out of chrooted |
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> > env. In this case, it will fail. It should be handled by hand. The lib |
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> > should ignore (or make it as it's done. the original files don't |
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> > change actually). |
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> > The last problem is that links will not be deleted over time. They may |
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> > grow if some programs scan the whole tree such as find. Most |
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> > install scripts won't afaik. |
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> Well, that's the smallest problem. |
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Well, it's just a thought. Could you show me other problems? I'd like |
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to see how wrong i am ;) |
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> > Ok, once "make install" is done, we have DESTDIR with all installed |
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> > files and some links. Some works are needed to remove links. |
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> > Don't know if it's usable, so post it here :) Any suggestions? |
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> > PS. I don't mean to replace src_install. It's for quick, dirty |
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> > ebuilds. It's for guys that want to install/test some programs |
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> > quickly. |
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> I don't get what problem you're trying to fix in the first place. Whats |
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> wrong with the current sandbox that would be fixed by your |
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> suggestion? |
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The purpose is "make install" copies files to DESTDIR automatically |
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without patching Makefile. |
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> Marius |
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