From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 06:26:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCE6106567B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65108FC1B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13929 invoked by uid 399); 16 Jun 2010 06:26:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 16 Jun 2010 06:26:48 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C186EA7.1060302@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:26:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Braniss References: <1276639800.2462.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1276646707.2462.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C18195A.3020501@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:26:50 -0000 On 06/15/10 22:53, Daniel Braniss wrote: > A similar 'security feature' was introduced sometime ago, wich 'silently' > broke firefox instalation , it refused to allow symlinks in destination > directory, of course the error was ignored by 'make install' so it took > some time later to find out that nothing was installed - my /usr/local is > symlinked. The solution was to 'fix' cpio to behave as before, since adding > the ignore-symlinks feature to firefox's makefile was beyond me:-) I'm sorry to hear that you had problems with this, but I'd like to take this opportunity to make a plea that when you (pl.) run into problems like this that you report them when they happen. I know that after taking time to track down problems the last thing you want to do is take MORE time to report them, but the 5 minutes you spend reporting it today can save hours for other users down the road. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/