477938 – sys-apps/portage: prevent packages from installing files into non-sane paths

Bug 477938 - sys-apps/portage: prevent packages from installing files into non-sane paths

Summary: sys-apps/portage: prevent packages from installing files into non-sane paths

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2013-07-23 19:30 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2013-07-23 19:30 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2013-07-23 19:30:46 UTC

Yesterday we had a pretty bad bug where bash-completion files were installed into /. Similar bugs occur randomly over time and would be much easier to catch and fix if portage checked the sanity of paths used for installed files.

That is, I believe that portage (or the gx86 repo) should have a white-list of locations where packages are allowed to install files and it should bail (with FEATURES=strict) whenever a package installs new files or directories not matching the white-list.