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>>>>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, justin wrote: |
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> On 18/06/11 13:18, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> That approach would still write to the filesystem. With the current |
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>> text the PM is probably allowed to set the sandbox so that writing |
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>> is anywhere is denied. |
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> The reason why it would be beneficial to use is the pkg_pretend |
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> phase is simply that the checks would run at the beginning of a |
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> emerge and it would fail directly instead somewhere in the middle. |
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> For a single package it won't change much but for a huge emerge it |
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> changes the things. |
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> But when there is no writing allowed during the pretend phase. then |
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> the only chance is to move it to pkg_setup. |
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I wonder if we could loosen up that requirement in PMS. In Portage |
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at least, T seems to point to an existing directory in pkg_pretend. |
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I don't know about the other package managers though. |
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Ulrich |
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