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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:30:33 +0200 |
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"Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Needs package manager support. Effectively this requires an EAPI |
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> > bump, since ebuilds need to know whether they can rely upon caps |
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> > being preserved across a merge or whether they have to degrade to a |
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> > setuid bit. |
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> Why? A simple USE flag should be enough, if set use caps, if not use |
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> current. |
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A user turns the use flag on, the ebuild creates files using caps |
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rather than set*id, the package manager merges it by copying the file |
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and the installed file ends up with no caps and no set*id bit. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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