Bug 258110

Summary:	mail-filter/anubis abusing ${ROOT}
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) <bangert>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	258096

Description Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-08 12:34:19 UTC

Some notes on ROOT:

* The idea behind ROOT is that one can build a system with ROOT=/somewhere and
then chroot into it or tar up /somewhere as a system image. It is not designed
to allow the user to run /somewhere/usr/bin/foo.

* ROOT can't be used correctly in src_*, since ROOT might be different when
merging a binary package. For example, a binary package might be built with
ROOT=/ and then installed onto a system using ROOT=/somewhere.

* ROOT isn't used for library dependencies. When building, libraries, headers
etc. on / have to be used. Cross-compiling etc is done by configuring the
toolchain correctly, not by hacking ebuilds in a way that breaks binary
packages.

See also the discussion on bug #167285 for more info.

Comment 1 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev

2011-06-13 18:09:17 UTC

+*anubis-4.1.1 (13 Jun 2011)
+
+  13 Jun 2011; Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> +files/4.1.1-gnutls.patch,
+  +files/4.1.1-gpgme.patch, +files/4.1.1-testsuite.patch, +anubis-4.1.1.ebuild:
+  Version bump - bug #253193. Correct pam.d file - bug #210818. Do not abuse
+  ROOT - bug #258110.
+