Re: [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] makechrootpkg: Use the host's SRCDEST and PKGDEST if they are defined

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:05, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:

The eval seems slightly dangerous to me... does anyone else have this concern, or am I being too careful?

eval is always dangerous. In this case, however, it's eval-ing from a text file only writable by root. If an attacker has root write permissions, you have more to worry about than this.