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On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 23:32 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> so we've found some cases where a package installs objects that either need to |
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> be ignored by some of the scanelf checks ... |
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> first off, we have kernel binary objects that a package installs (the h*modem |
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> packages do this), so they should not be subjected to the exec stack scans |
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> next up is the slmodem package ... this puppy is partly binary only and we |
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> have no access to the source code and upstream is dead ... one of the |
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> pre-built binary objects has an exec stack enabled via gcc (meaning it's a |
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> legit use of exec stack) ... so we need to skip that |
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> what this e-mail is about is naming convention ... i'm thinking that an ebuild |
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> sets up a variable with a list of relative paths to $D of files that should |
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> be skipped for various checks ... so with slmodem, we'd have like: |
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> QA_EXEC_STACK="usr/sbin/slmodemd usr/sbin/slmodem_test" |
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> if, in the future, we need to add an ignore list for TEXTRELs, we'd use |
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> QA_TEXTRELS="...." |
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This becomes tricky when looking at tests across all CHOSTs. |
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What holds true for one arch defiantly is not the case for others. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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