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Hi! |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:13:26PM -0500, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> The best way to get to know what its all about is to help me with the |
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> documentation. I'll upload it after discussion. Its at |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/zzz/pax-quickstart.xml |
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> It describes pretty much anything. Give it a read and let me know what |
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> you think should be added. |
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Actually I think a lot should be removed instead. Right now it's |
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overcomplicated and overloaded with useless internals/details. |
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The name "QuickStart" suppose it to be read by end-users, especially ones |
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which wanna do their work fast without deep digging. |
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There are too many ways to do same things, and too many tools doing same |
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things. I think it makes more sense to concentrate on user's use cases, |
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instead of implementation details. |
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Such use cases as: |
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- how to quickly convert my system to XATTR_PAX |
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- how to quickly convert it back PT_PAX |
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- which ordinary operations may damage/drop PaX settings on elf |
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(should mention things like minimal tar version which preserve xattrs, |
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issues with copying/moving/scping/etc., …) |
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- is ebuilds which currently do paxmarking will automatically use |
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XATTR_PAX when it's enabled? |
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- what happens with custom xattrs on file after re-emerging package |
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containing that file? |
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- how to find and paxmark all binaries which use libraries like libGL.so.1 |
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And the less tools you'll use to do these tasks - the better. |
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P.S. One more possible typo which I forget to include in personal email to |
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you: at "Code Listing 5.4: paxctl -h" flag "-d" mentioned in "Usage" but |
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not documented in "Options". |
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WBR, Alex. |
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