Benjamin Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark E. Perkins wrote: > >> If I comment out the 'Defaults' line noted above, then 'sudo make test' in >> the fink-0.8.1-full directory completes w/o error. Does the Fink >> installation script set PERL5LIB somewhere (e.g., to get >> Fink/Services.pm)? > > So it seems to me, if your desire is to follow this security advisory, > then you should choose to let fink "su" to root instead of using "sudo", > when the bootstrap proccess asks you. Setting PERL5LIB is a rather > important part of what fink does to avoid messing with your system > itself, I don't know that there's another good way to do it. > > We could certainly make it so fink does 'use lib' to find it's own > stuff, but it's silly to patch every perl package in fink to add > /sw/lib/perl5 to the include path internally... That's what PERL5LIB is > for...
I have just written to fink-core about this, because I get that vague feeling that this could be one of those little things that will hit us in the face when 10.5 comes out... -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
