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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making ebuilds that provide mkfs.* programs include kernel config checks for fcaps (or other xattrs)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:14:13
Message-Id: 6323eb33-9aa7-c274-7392-b820c38730d6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making ebuilds that provide mkfs.* programs include kernel config checks for fcaps (or other xattrs) by Zac Medico
1 On 06/29/2018 11:43 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > As suggested by Wojciech Myrda in bug 659486 [1], it would be helpful if
5 > sys-fs/e2fsprogs would use the linux-info eclass to warn if the kernel
6 > configuration doesn't include CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y when the user
7 > has expressed a desire to use file capabilities. This idea can be
8 > extended to any ebuild that provides an mkfs.* program. Thoughts?
9 >
10 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/659486#c11
11 >
12
13 I like this idea. We should do it.

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