Bug 477938

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: prevent packages from installing files into non-sane paths
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.