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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:23:49
Message-Id: 20060805172347.04281690@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:29:48 -0400
2 "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:14:17 +0200
6 > > Sascha Geschwandtner <s.geschwandtner@×××.de> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> So right now, I'd like to see "collision-protect sandbox strict"
9 > >> included in the default FEATUREs.
10 > >
11 > > sandbox and strict are already default for a long time.
12 >
13 > Not 100% true. Sandbox has been broken on mips for the entirety of
14 > its existence, so we have to disable it in the top level mips
15 > profile. It is something that we would like to see fixed for real.
16 > Kumba snagged some patch from debian for glibc that quasi-fixes it,
17 > where by that I mean it goes from being 100% unusable to about 80%
18 > unusable.
19
20 I know, but mips is a special case here (together with the non-linux
21 platforms).
22
23 >
24 > -Steve
25 >
26 > P.S. Note that we have offered various portage devs hardware and/or
27 > an account on Iluxa's ginormous Origin 2000 machine in the past with
28 > the intention of getting this fixed, and nobody has taken us up on
29 > that...
30
31 Probably because portage devs don't know much about sandbox internals
32 either, really I think the only person that could help you there right
33 now is Az (or maybe the SoC guy working on a BSD port of sandbox).
34
35 Marius
36
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