Sounds like it's a good thing if it were done. This has been hardcoded default for more than 10 years and scripts assume this path, one problem I see is that this build path is hardcoded in user scripts and hard to modify without breaking anything.
At Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:07:36 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Package: pbuilder > Version: 0.213 > Severity: wishlist > > The Debian buildd machines use this path to unpack and build source > packages, please switch to it for compatibility: > > /build/buildd-<package>_<binary-version>-<arch>-<XXXXXX>/ pbuilder uses one chroot for one package, would /build/buildd/ work or should I have to use the randomized and long path; what's the advantage (apart from compatibility) ? > > The XXXXXX is the template from the mktemp --directory invocation. > > The advantage of this is that no build systems will embed /tmp in their > binaries nor build system, which means no potential security issues from > that and also grepping source code for /tmp after a build becomes much > less noisy. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
