Re: [RFC] Fixed installworld with noexec /tmp

I am not familiar with that problem. I don't think my fix would help that issue as it was already using mktemp(1) to get a random directory in /tmp.

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> On Jun 9, 2014, at 18:28, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Would this fix instances of people building world on a shared box?
> 
> (ie, multiple different srcdir/objdir/destdir, but same /tmp?)
> 
> 
> -a
> 
> 
>> On 9 June 2014 19:01, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I've always had my /tmp mounted as noexec. Despite how useless this
>> is, I and many others have had trouble with installworld due to it.
>> 
>> You can see how frequent it occurs here:
>> https://www.google.com/#q=freebsd+installworld+noexec
>> 
>> A simple workaround, which I only just discovered from PR 58117, is to set
>> TMPDIR
>> to somewhere that can exec.
>> 
>> This patch fixes it by using the OBJDIR rather than the assumed /tmp or
>> TMPDIR.
>> 
>> The purpose of the installworld code using INSTALLTMP is to use the
>> pre-install
>> binaries to do the install, rather than the newly built binaries. This is to
>> ensure
>> the binaries will run while system is in an inconsistent state with
>> libraries and
>> in case the kernel is not yet upgraded. My change adds continues to respect
>> that by
>> ensuring it uses the already-installed mkdir(1) and env(1) with full paths.
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~bdrewery/patches/installworld-noexec.txt
>> 
>> --- Makefile.inc1
>> +++ Makefile.inc1
>> @@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ TMPPATH=    ${STRICTTMPPATH}:${PATH}
>> # when in the middle of installing over this system.
>> #
>> .if make(distributeworld) || make(installworld)
>> -INSTALLTMP!=   /usr/bin/mktemp -d -u -t install
>> +INSTALLTMPDIR= ${OBJTREE}${.CURDIR}/itmp
>> +INSTALLTMP!=   /bin/mkdir -p ${INSTALLTMPDIR} && /usr/bin/env \
>> +               TMPDIR=${INSTALLTMPDIR} /usr/bin/mktemp -d -u -t install
>> .endif
>> 
>> #
>> @@ -833,7 +835,7 @@ distributeworld installworld: _installcheck_world
>>            LOCAL_MTREE=${LOCAL_MTREE:Q} distrib-dirs
>> .endif
>>        ${_+_}cd ${.CURDIR}; ${IMAKE} re${.TARGET:S/world$//}; \
>> -           ${IMAKEENV} rm -rf ${INSTALLTMP}
>> +           ${IMAKEENV} rm -rf ${INSTALLTMPDIR}
>> .if make(distributeworld)
>> .for dist in ${EXTRA_DISTRIBUTIONS}
>>        find ${DESTDIR}/${DISTDIR}/${dist} -mindepth 1 -empty -delete
>> 
>> The only downside I see is that failures can leave the stale tmpdir in
>> the OBJDIR, which is why I remove the entire "itmp" dir once installworld
>> finally does succeed.
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bryan Drewery
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