On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Maxim Kammerer <m...@dee.su> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> i don't know what you mean. if the ebuild detects devpts being mounted and >> the mount is incorrect, it will die. if you don't have devpts mounted at >> all, >> then it assumes you know what you're doing. > > What I am saying is that you make no distinction between build > environment and deployment environment. Quite a few users build their > Gentoo systems in a chroot. In that case, whole /dev, or its portions > (including /dev/pts) can be bind-mounts from the host filesystem, and > /dev/pts does not need to have the correct permissions. However, you > *would* see such a bind-mount as a devpts mount in /proc/mounts. So > why not print a warning — what's the point of dying in pkg_preinst? >
Do you have a reason for not having /dev/pts mounted with gid=5 on the system hosting the chroot environment? Calling die is much more likely to save users systems than an ewarn.
