Bug 499202 – Sandbox violations when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set in the calling environment

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2014-01-25 09:57:03 UTC]

As seen in many bugs the presents of ~/.config/matplotlib for the user you are compiling the package with, causes sandbox violations as soon as matplotlib comes into play.

This can be worked around by setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME to e.g. $T

How about proactivaly setting this in the python*r1 eclasses instead of waiting for a user filing a bug when hitting this.

Additionally we could also set MPLCONFIGDIR to avoid checking in users directory.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2014-01-25 16:13:58 UTC]

I sent a note to gentoo-dev asking for advice.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2014-01-26 00:27:36 UTC]

Ideally this would be dealt with by Portage, but it looks like that's going to get caught up in the usual EAPI lag time.

[Comment 3 Bignaux Ronan 2015-02-06 15:28:37 UTC]

same problem with mpv

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2016-02-08 16:03:09 UTC]

xdg.eclass was added by Gilles some weeks ago for this kind of issue (and yes, I would also like to see this done at PM level for not needing to keep adding xdg.eclass to random ebuilds when bugs are reported but, until that is done...)

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2018-04-24 15:41:37 UTC]

This looks tracker-ish, and it seems that all tracked bugs have been fixed.  The only remaining point is to have ENV_UNSET from EAPI 7 implemented and in use.