On 2 December 2015 at 23:16, Alejandro del Castillo < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Whilst the patch is fine, this is worrying as noexec /tmp shouldn't > break opkg. > > Maybe opkg should be changed to use something in /var for the scripts? > > Could you expand on why it's better to use /var instead of /tmp as the > default > sandbox location for opkg? I believe dpkg uses /var/lib/ and would like to > understand why that's better (to change opkg, if it makes sense) Well in this case it's fairly common to mount /tmp as noexec on security grounds, and to be limited in size (say a small tmpfs), whereas /var generally has less restrictions. Ross
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