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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:01:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f96ba8fa-d587-d35e-2d79-e475e9d0ac65@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAD4mYjJi1xuORbO4KQh8q+S7WsZ93P9-s+yatvqvqH-n4rPPw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/22/2017 05:51 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox
>>
> 
> I think I understand, in principle, why a sandbox could be useful, but
> would it not be more productive to follow up with projects which do
> unexpected things to ask that they not do those things?
> 

The sandbox isn't a security feature, it's more of a QA tool. How do you
*know* when the upstream project does something wrong? See, for example,

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/599706

The sandbox doesn't catch something, and the upstream project dropped
DESTDIR from its build system. The result? /usr/bin is now owned by the
"nagios" user. Of course the upstream build system shouldn't be making
/usr/bin owned by nagios, but it would take you a good long time to
notice it without the sandbox.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 19:56 [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project Michał Górny
2017-09-21 20:33 ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-09-21 20:54   ` Michał Górny
2017-09-21 21:07     ` Mart Raudsepp
2017-09-21 21:25       ` Michał Górny
2017-09-21 22:41         ` Matt Turner
2017-09-22  4:07           ` Michał Górny
2017-09-22 10:57             ` Alexis Ballier
2017-09-22 11:38               ` Sergei Trofimovich
2017-09-22 12:04                 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-09-22 12:27                 ` Rich Freeman
2017-09-22 15:06                   ` James McMechan
2017-09-22 17:03                     ` Brian Dolbec
2017-09-22 17:16                       ` Patrick McLean
2017-09-22 15:20               ` Michał Górny
2017-09-22 17:15                 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-09-22 17:39                   ` Michał Górny
2017-09-22 18:31                     ` Alexis Ballier
2017-09-22 21:26                       ` Michał Górny
2017-09-21 21:28       ` Patrick McLean
2017-09-22 21:51 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-22 22:01   ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2017-09-22 22:05   ` Alec Warner
2017-09-23  5:18     ` R0b0t1

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