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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic pax-mark
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:14:41
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41yWy-Pbt4ZwW-O67v9UfO=xgycU=czw6r2ibaHbMADKA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic pax-mark by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote:
2 > Actually I've wondered if it would make more sense to default to PAX_MARKINGS="none",
3 > and have the hardened profiles (or the user in make.conf) set a different value.
4
5 That makes some sense to me. The downside is that that switching from
6 vanilla gentoo to hardened would require a rebuild of all packages
7 that need pax markings.
8
9 > But thinking again now, I'm wondering if pax-mark should be done in pkg_preinst rather
10 > than src_install - for the sake of binary merges when the build machine has different
11 > PAX_MARKINGS than the target machine (no idea if that ever would happen).
12
13 This also makes sense to me.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic pax-mark "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>