opkg - adding an offline-path option

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Mon Nov 24 09:54:07 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

| By the way, when I saw your comment about fakeroot, I checked how
| well I was doing with my "sandbox" in myroot, which uses the same
| approach: it seems that my host's /etc survived relatively unscathed.
| Only /etc/shells had received a few new entries.

On Fedora anyway normal permissions should disallow any damage to the
build host if you're running as normal user:

drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12288 2008-11-24 07:44 /etc
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2002-03-29 00:17 /etc/shells

- -Andy
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