MacPorts and sandboxing

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Sep 27 15:36:55 PDT 2012


On 2012-9-28 04:45 , Arno Hautala wrote:
> What about other options like chroot? Would it be possible to build
> within a chrooted environment? Maybe that would be too heavy in having
> to copy all dependencies to the chroot.

MPAB used to do this, but it broke in 10.6 for multiple reasons. One was
access to the socket for mDNSResponder. I think xcodebuild also wanted
to do something that chroot made difficult or impossible.

- Josh


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