sandbox allows modification of mtimes of files without any attempts at bypassing it. It's not a big issue, but it could prevent complete unmerging of applications. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ cat test-1.0.ebuild KEYWORDS=~x86 src_unpack() { ls -l /usr/bin/test touch /usr/bin/test ls -l /usr/bin/test die } Actual Results: $ sudo emerge test/test Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) test/test-1.0 to / * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23856 2007-01-06 23:21 /usr/bin/test ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23856 2007-01-25 17:40 /usr/bin/test !!! ERROR: test/test-1.0 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1611: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 748: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' environment, line 1436: Called src_unpack test-1.0.ebuild, line 6: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/test/test-1.0/temp/build.log'. --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-test_-_test-1.0-19968.log" open_wr: /usr/bin/test -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/etc/portage/overlay' Expected Results: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23856 2007-01-06 23:21 /usr/bin/test ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23856 2007-01-06 23:21 /usr/bin/test $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:50:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.5-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/dist" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests autoconfig autopatch collision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer notitles sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" /var/dist/unofficial http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Xlinker --as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/pkg" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cvs/gentoo-x86 /etc/portage/overlay /etc/portage/overlay/enlightenment" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 acl akode alsa bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cjk cli cracklib cups dlloader dri dvd dvdread fbcon flac gif iconv idn immqt ipv6 isdnlog jit jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility lesstif libg++ mbox mmx mmxext mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nntp nocxx nptl nptlonly objc objc++ objc-gc offensive ogg opengl pango pascal pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd readline reflection rt2500pci rtc scim sdl session source spell spl ssl symlink threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utempter vim-with-x vorbis wacom x86 xcomposite xim xorg xv xvid zlib" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en_GB en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
we werent catching the utime related functions ... ive added wrappers to svn
