-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Was talking with Brian about the build environment and how settings were to be passed into the build environment.
Essentially three scenarios were presented. 1) The full environment is passed to the build environment. This was generally agreed upon to be bad since there are environmental things that can cause build problems. 2) The full environment is parsed via a blacklist to strip out environment settings that are known to be bad for building packages. This leads to a clean* build environment. However, maintaining the blacklist can be a challenge if it grows in size. (*) clean, meaining all the bad things we know about are not in the build environment. This does not account for the bad things we do NOT know about. 3) The full environment is parsed via a whitelist to get a list of environment settings that are known to be good for building packages. This leads to a clean build environment, as only whitelisted environment settings are passed in. However, the whitelist will probably be worse to maintain than a blacklist. Both 2) and 3) above have issues where some build variables are bad for ebuild X but not ebuild Y. I am unsure how exactly to cover any kind of situation like that ( and I don't have an example from the tree, save perhaps LANG=weird-language ). To me 1) is unacceptable and 3) is the best option. Feel free to shoot these down as you see fit ;) - -Alec Warner (antarus) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQwjjSGzglR5RwbyYAQIAeQ//cGJLLF0BKATfaUjAikiKgJ8miHeMBw9p UMN+xmB3N48Qj8bEC9qhhisSVZGFUVBuucWX5ObKGOG9vQx2Ry/i3NJG0W124s77 f9lLYOcPBOXV6Wo9F4WQ20SZt+0ktoCe2aphC/aVVyiyQhagtqjud50caBcUVfGq OlpZLLze9LW5SeqRC5N826kZJh63wP/4YOqqRo5DKjIJb/ahFUT0IZqBVWs2OADD 548yRsBsW4G3n8+JxANbGVeFwPACiWc+DFUBU651X36D01+D/M/a5Cp1f+J+Y2IW AouTkuzxmu8FgiK1+xNN3hOPM+PiqHfcWT7gBa+5Xb+h19mwgJuQAAD7stQNKxZk GorIA6GubOx+6qQd4nbzdR7bm2/LUhpC2IOQlIwmMwh2RPYnVp7QRILvsFRGPELV Fb0/enfwD2EzhwJJKkx5LFOdTFA71RP7WICNUJTbntRWp89aspgPg+gB/6gq9s0t Hf8oRsHR1Xox0NH09oJTTToxakgjdnSrjUAG42ZqDLRvP1x8FmL6BWbYZ9CIXBaJ r7wxYCwW6pQGcuCAtZCnc9UEIHXTZuy4btxnrfxAwtT10dJub2BrBo4TSZgRQyKu ++N3nxVb0m8qOgRJYsv4hBb0ybJgrDiqCmvfSgSEJAO1+wKPnR8YhEqsOkNBul4Y sLBvLF9lJl8= =AXLx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
