Re: Help testing full end-to-end xattr support in portage

On 07/03/14 06:48, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 07/03/14 06:43, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> On 07/02/14 09:41, Luis Ressel wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:47:26 -0400
>>> "Anthony G. Basile" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are two advantages to paxctl over paxctl-ng from elfix: 1) It
>>>> doesn't depend on elfutils to do its manipulation of elf phdr's.  2)
>>>> It does try to convert or create a PT_PAX_FLAGS phdr by either
>>>> creating (-C) or converting (-c) a PT_GNU_STACK phdr.
>>>>
>>>> The advantage of paxctl-ng over paxctl is 1) it is designed to do
>>>> both PT_PAX and/or XATTR_PAX markings, 2) it is consciously designed
>>>> to not try to create/convert ELF phdr's.
>>>>
>>>> If we ever drop the PT_PAX_FLAGS patch from binutils then paxctl
>>>> would no longer be needed and paxctl-ng can be reduced to just doing
>>>> XATTR_PAX markings.
>>>>
>>>> One step at a time ;)
>>>
>>> Okay, that sounds reasonable. And as paxctl is a small program, it
>>> doesn't hurt to have it around on XATTR_PAX-only systems even though
>>> it's not needed.
>>>
>>> But there's still an issue. According to [1], 15 packages still depend
>>> on or invoke paxctl directly. One example is dev-lisp/sbcl, which needs
>>> pax markings at one point right in the middle of the build process and
>>> therefore can't use the pax eclass, at least not in a simple way. This
>>> doesn't work on systems like mine which don't respect PT_PAX flags.
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on a patch for sbcl (there are selinux-related
>>> issues as well), but please have a look at the other ebuilds.
>>>
>>> [1] $ echo /usr/portage/*/*/*.ebuild|xargs -n1000 grep -P
>>> 'paxctl(?!-ng)'|cut -d: -f1
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Luis Ressel
>>>
>>
>> Yep open a tracker bug for packages that invoke paxctl directly, and
>> attach that to the main tracker bug, bug #427888.
>>
>
> Actually I'll do it.
>

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516158

Please open up bugs against individual packages and have them block 
against bug #516158



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