Re: [oe-commits] Alex Franco : Fix mode +st on TMPDIR when creating it

[Alex Franco <alejandro.franco@linux.intel.com>]

Thanks, I have sent a patch after removing the -R and testing a bit

Alex Franco

On 09/02/2015 06:14 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 16:47 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Alex Franco
>> <alejandro.franco@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>          I gather the original reason (for the sanity test, as well as
>>          these changes) is that it is better for everything under
>>          BUILDDIR - and certainly TMPDIR to be owned by the user
>>          running bitbake and have standard permissions, the sticky bit
>>          itself would prevent a user running bitbake, even with +rwx
>>          permissions, from making changes to items it might need to
>>          manipulate, if those are not owned by this user. Similarly
>>          setuid and setgid might propagate user/group ownerships
>>          different from the user bitbake is running as, into BUILDDIR
>>          and TMPDIR (and items therein).
>>          
>>          For more info take a look at:
>>          https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7669
>>          
>>          Perhaps there are more pressing reasons, perhaps Christopher
>>          Larson can comment a bit on this.
>>
>> Indeed, the g+s can flow down into the files put into the packages,
>> and then into the rootfs. I ran into a this problem quite a bit, since
>> my project areas are in a g+s area to keep the files accessible to the
>> group.
>
> There is actually another problem here. The -R means if you do this to
> an existing build directory, it takes around 10 mins on the machine I
> just rebooted with a cold cache. We need to lose the -R there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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