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From: Petr Chyba <lami@××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] sandbox
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:02:11
Message-Id: 4072D46C.2090406@bonbox.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] sandbox by Dadi
1 Hi.
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3 I've got similar error when updating ncurses, but it was caused by
4 symlinked /usr. Ncurses has relative path somewhere in Makefile and it
5 got outside of sandbox. When not using symlinks, all is Ok. It's bad
6 idea to symlink /usr, IMHO, but I was too lazy ;-P
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8 Maybe it is similar case.
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10 Lami
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12 Dadi wrote:
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14 >The thing is that the same thing happened with procmail.
15 >I looked for the bug(both oo and procmail), found it and added my comments, but guess what, the 'workaround' is to have -sandbox in FEATURES.
16 >
17 >Well, thanks for clearing the sandbox concept for me.
18 >Dadi
19 >
20 >On Tuesday 06 April 2004 15:41, Kerin Millar wrote:
21 >
22 >
23 >>>All I know is when I have FEATURES="-sandbox", openoffice 1.1.1 compiles. Otherwise, not.
24 >>>
25 >>>
26 >>That should be directed toward bugs.gentoo.org with as much information as you are able to supply (having checked for a duplicate bug report first ;). Some Makefiles are really unpleasant and need to be patched to avoid silly behaviour.
27 >>
28 >>--Kerin Millar
29 >>
30 >>
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32 Petr Chyba
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34 Genesis 2 development team (http://www.genesis2.cz)
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