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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CWD-relative ROOT support in portage: misfeature?
From: "Gregory M. Turner" <gmt () malth ! us>
Date: 2012-08-19 15:00:54
Message-ID: 5030FFA6.9090200 () malth ! us
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On 8/18/2012 5:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
>
> On 2012-08-17, at 11:00 PM, "Gregory M. Turner" <gmt@malth.us> wrote:
>
> > greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ mkdir foo
> > greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ ROOT=foo portageq envvar ROOT
> > /tmp/foo/
> >
> > Does /anybody/ use this feature?
>
> Sorry for the HTML response... am on the road.
>
> I don't use the feature but I would fully expect said behavior. ie, going with the \
> example above I would expect that I'd need the / in front for the path to not be \
> relative.
A user and maintainer of this (vapier) has emerged. I pooh-poohed the
relative-ROOT idea when I discovered it a few days ago, but I've
flip-flopped. I was concerned it would be exploitable by Bad
People(tm), but I think it's no more exploitable than absolute-only
ROOT, so long as its implemented correctly.
So far, nobody's turned up to advocate against the status quo (except
me, but I'm fine with it now), so I think the matter can be considered
resolved.
-gmt
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