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>>>>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:42:07 +0200 |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> We say in Table 11.1 [3] that T and TMPDIR (and HOME) are legal in all |
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>> phases and must be "the location of a usable temporary directory". At |
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>> the same time, we say in the spec for pkg_* phases that they "must not |
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>> write to the filesystem" [4], or that they "must not write outside of |
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>> the directories specified by the ROOT and D environment variables" [5] |
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>> which effectively forbids writing to the ${T} etc. directories. |
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> The point of them pointing to a usable directory is just to avoid |
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> problems with things that break if the variable is empty or set to |
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> nonsense. |
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Yeah, but what is the point of restricting writes if the directory is |
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usable? |
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Ulrich |