Re: [gentoo-dev] An example overlayfs sandbox test

2017-09-24 Thread James McMechan
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:29 PM, James McMechan >wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>>On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:43 PM, James McMechan >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] An example overlayfs sandbox test

2017-09-22 Thread James McMechan
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:43 PM, James McMechan > wrote: >> >> # now create a separate mount namespace non-persistent >> unshare -m bash >> > >If you're going to go to the trouble to set up a co

[gentoo-dev] An example overlayfs sandbox test

2017-09-22 Thread James McMechan
Hello, I thought a example of how a overlay sandbox could work was in order. ### # load the overlayfs filesystem for this test modprobe overlay # make the directories for the test mkdir -p /var/tmp/upper /var/tmp/work /mnt/gentoo # now create a separate mount namespace non-persistent unshare -m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project

2017-09-22 Thread James McMechan
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: >> >> Some other distros try harder to isolate build environment either >> through chroot and/or private mount/user/network namespace that >> contains only explicitly specified files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Call for help in testing - sparc + gnutls-3.5

2017-07-16 Thread James McMechan
Hi, Matt I have been helping Alon with testing on one of my sparc boxes, what is broken? is there a log of #gentoo-sparc or a gentoo-sparc mailing list somewhere? on a side note where should I ask about a respin of the iso, the old kernel will crash if a ATI graphics card is present. Than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-14 Thread James McMechan
> > > The easiest solution is for the arch team to remove keywords until they > > > have a reasonable response time again. And if the arch team doesn't do > > > that by itself, well, ... > > > > > > Having one-man teams block everybody else hurts Gentoo as a whole. > > > > We have appropriate har

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst

2016-09-23 Thread James McMechan
>From: alexmcwhir...@triadic.us >Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:48 PM >To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: [gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst >  >For my sparc64 port, i need a livecd with kernel 4.8-rc6 that is patched >to work on a livecd. I'm not goi