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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/79655: linux_base-8 fails to install as non-root
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The following reply was made to PR ports/79655; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/79655: linux_base-8 fails to install as non-root
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:45:16 -0700
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:19:02PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
>
> >One possible solution would be to only use ARCH to set these flags and
> >then set a variable named LINUX_ARCH that could be used in the names
> >of the RPM files, etc. E.g. the above would become:
> [changes]
> >and all the other occurences of ${ARCH} would become ${TRUE_ARCH}.
>
> I don't have an amd64 machine to test this. And I haven't looked at the ARCH
> issues, since David seems to have work in this area.
>
> I like to incorporate at least John's patch into my linux-mega-patch.
I'd really like to see:
-pre-install:
+pre-su-install:
committed right away. I don't see a need to delay that fix.
> If your proposal is orthogonal to David's work I can integrate it into
> my mega patch (which is supposed to get a test run on the ports build
> cluster) too.
I'd really like to hold off on the rest of this patch until /usr/ports is
totally unfrozen and we can do some ARCH clean ups that is needed. Then
we can have a good base to investigate issues from.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)