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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