771540 – sys-apps/portage: make.conf documentation about security.* exclusion is incorrect, and PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* -security.capability" is desirable

Bug 771540 - sys-apps/portage: make.conf documentation about security.* exclusion is incorrect, and PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* -security.capability" is desirable

Summary: sys-apps/portage: make.conf documentation about security.* exclusion is incor...

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Depends on:	548516
Blocks:	193766
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Reported:	2021-02-19 01:32 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2023-08-24 20:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-02-19 01:32:27 UTC

We've been using individual security.* excludes since bug 548516, because the need to allow security.capability prevents us from excluding security.* by default. We can solve this problem by adding support for things like PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* -security.capability" like INSTALL_MASK.