On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:45:17AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Once in a while a port fails to upgrade, because it wants to write something > in /etc. E.g. perl into /etc/make.conf or other ports into /etc/group. > > On my systems / is normally a read only mount. These ports build fine during > a portupgrade and fail during install, leaving most of the port installed, > but unregistered (i.e. the package database is broken). > > I think such ports should set something like USE_WRITE_SLASH=yes and refuse > to install if / is not writeable.
I don't think this is something we should support in ports - that way lies madness (what about systems with non-writable /var? What about systems with /etc on a md? etc). Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
