Hi ferringb suggested I send out a mail here. For those of you that do not know we Mike Frysinger and myself have written a general purpose ELF Q/A tool called pax-utils
The tool itself can be used to preform a number of tasks. What ferringb would like todo is take advantage of this tool for the an updated verify-rdepend code. For him the gain is that scanelf the util can handle 32/64 bit big and little endian bins compiled for any arch. The old method used ldd and thus had to load the full binary into memory and resolv a bunch of runtime symbols, load extra libs. The ldd method is not cross-compile safe where scanelf is. portage-2.0.53_rc7 already makes use of the tool when installed to preform several ELF Q/A checks and it's proving itself quite useful in pinpointing some security bugs. So vs putting the tool in the base profile it seems fitting to make portage depend on it. Before he does that does anybody have any objections? If so please let us know what and why. Pseudo webpage at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/pax-utils/ (Swift did the .xml loving) -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
