On 12/6/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK so it built with FEATURES="-sandbox" but I guess I don't understand why. > Could someone give a brief description of the cause of sandbox violations?
Sandbox violations occur when a build of a package tries to modify something on your filesystem outside of the /var/tmp/portage/<pkg>/work directory. Put simply, the build of a package is not allowed to do silly things like add users to /etc/passwd, change file or directory permissions, remove or add files, etc. Having such things in a build is a bad idea for every distribution, because if you build a binary package and distribute it, it is very unlikely that those modifications can also be distributed in any sane way. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
