[gentoo-portage-dev] [rfc] variable naming for marking binaries as QA ignorable

[Mike Frysinger]

so we've found some cases where a package installs objects that either need to 
be ignored by some of the scanelf checks ...

first off, we have kernel binary objects that a package installs (the h*modem 
packages do this), so they should not be subjected to the exec stack scans

next up is the slmodem package ... this puppy is partly binary only and we 
have no access to the source code and upstream is dead ... one of the 
pre-built binary objects has an exec stack enabled via gcc (meaning it's a 
legit use of exec stack) ... so we need to skip that

what this e-mail is about is naming convention ... i'm thinking that an ebuild 
sets up a variable with a list of relative paths to $D of files that should 
be skipped for various checks ... so with slmodem, we'd have like:
QA_EXEC_STACK="usr/sbin/slmodemd usr/sbin/slmodem_test"

if, in the future, we need to add an ignore list for TEXTRELs, we'd use 
QA_TEXTRELS="...."
-mike
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