* Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Re: Write to filesystem in pkg_* phases
@ 2020-07-05 19:04 99% ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2020-07-05 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw
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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> This topic was already discussed in -dev some time ago [1], but went
>> nowhere at the time. Now it came up again in bug 469210 [2].
>> (Ironically, checking for a particular kernel configuration is the
>> example mentioned in the spec for pkg_pretend.)
>> We say in Table 11.1 [3] that T and TMPDIR (and HOME) are legal in all
>> phases and must be "the location of a usable temporary directory". At
>> the same time, we say in the spec for pkg_* phases that they "must not
>> write to the filesystem" [4], or that they "must not write outside of
>> the directories specified by the ROOT and D environment variables" [5]
>> which effectively forbids writing to the ${T} etc. directories.
>> What is the purpose of this restriction? From above mentioned bug I
>> conclude that neither Portage nor Paludis enforce it.
> Coming back to this. As I have been told, the same is true for Pkgcore.
> So, find a patch included below. Please review.
Pushed.
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