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On 30/04/12 11:30, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24:58 +0200 |
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> Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> On 30/04/12 08:57, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> |
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>>> Since lately Gentoo devs force you to replace collision-protect with |
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>>> protect-owned [1] and sometimes packages just spit out files |
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>>> randomly on the filesystem due to random errors, I thought it may |
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>>> be a good idea to provide a new feature limiting the locations |
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>>> where packages can install. |
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>> You're not forced to do anything. |
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> I am not? How come random ebuilds die in pkg_pretend() for me then? |
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>> |
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>>> In order to do that, we should first compose a complete |
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>>> include/exclude list where packages can install. I'd suggest the |
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>>> following: |
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>>> |
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>>> + /bin |
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>>> + /boot (but maybe just subdirectories so packages can't overwrite |
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>>> kernels?) |
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>>> [potentially + /dev? but that's useful only when tmpfs isn't |
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>>> mounted] |
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>>> + /etc |
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>>> + /lib, /lib32, /lib64 |
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>>> + /opt |
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>>> + /sbin |
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>>> [potentially + /service for ugly daemontools] |
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>>> + /usr |
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>>> + /var |
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>>> - /usr/local |
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>>> - /usr/portage |
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>>> |
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>>> What are your thoughts on this? |
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>>> |
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>>> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410691#c4 |
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>> I think it's feature creep - you can just set INSTALL_MASK="/usr/local |
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>> /usr/portage", no need for new features. |
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>> PS. I (and few other folks) don't have /usr/portage. |
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> INSTALL_MASK won't make committing such an ebuild a fatal error. It |
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> will just hide problems. |
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How would your proposed feature prevent ebuilds that install something to |
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/usr/local from being committed? |
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Other valid case are private repos - I have a few ebuilds that install stuff to |
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/<some_random_dir> (proprietary stuff). |
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