From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BB61387FD for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60952E0B2C; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65D43E0B1A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.175.71.44] (85-76-53-111-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.53.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94CCB33FCB2 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5339CDB9.3060000@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:19:05 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox access violations while running matlab binary installer References: <5339B07D.1040002@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7ef299c3-611e-43ce-9b8c-7dc5dc7ce201 X-Archives-Hash: 5421a1dee912fb559049443e4efedcdb On 31/03/14 21:24, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Samuli Suominen > wrote: > > > On 31/03/14 21:15, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to create an ebuild to install matlab MCR on gentoo. > > The installer InstallShileld try to create directory > > /root/InstallShield ;-) > > mkdir is run by java binary that try this. So I have no access to > > change it. > > There is no option to provide InstallShield it's relative > install path. > > I can provide matlab's install path and other options, but this made > > permanent /root/InstallShield > > > > What can I do? > > > > Thanks, > > Kfir > > Try the gentoo-user mailing list or forums. Nothing we can do from > Gentoo's side, ie. wrong mailing list. > > Is there a way to contain this violation and provide a pseudo > permissions to use /root/InstallShield Have you looked into using `addpredict` or `addwrite`? For examples, check, # cd /usr/portage # grep addpredict */*/*.ebuild And same for addwrite. (And I still believe this discussion should be in the gentoo-user ML, but since others have replied too, might as well.)