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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:10:18 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete and +DEINSTALL
Message-ID:  <CADLo838AUgF-AXv06-cEROCDh-KNf93MSh-CQK3ffq7nMfiy8g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10 June 2012 19:55, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> While pkgng is growing momentum I have a small suggestion for outgoing pkg_* tools.
> It seems that pkg_delete performs something like exec(+DEINSTALL, ...).
> I think that it would be better to do exec(/bin/sh, +DEINSTALL, ...).
> Rationale:
> - no need to set x bit on +DEINSTALL
> - no need to allow exec on /var/db filesystem
> The problem is discovered by actually using noexec mount option.

I don't think this is a bad idea, so I've copied in flz, the de-facto
pkg_install maintainer....

.... but don't forget that pkg_install is very close to death!

Chris



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