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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:48:02 -0500
From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net>
Subject: Re: ports/www/mozilla/Makefile
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote:
>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mozilla/Makefile?rev=1.77&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
>do-install:
>       ${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/lib/mozilla
>       ${CHMOD} 755 ${PREFIX}/lib/mozilla
>       cd ${WRKSRC}/dist/bin && ${TAR} -chf - . | \
>               ${TAR} -xf - -C ${PREFIX}/lib/mozilla
>       ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/mozilla ${PREFIX}/bin
>
>Not all ${LIBMODE} under ${PREFIX}/lib here.  Is this supposed to be 
>fixed someday?

If somebody opens a PR and submits a patch. :) Hint.

>Is there a better example of how to make something that doesn't want to 
>be in hier(7) format work?

>Multiple personal copies of ITS strikes me as very wasteful of CPU and 
>disk resources and against
>the ITS way of doing things.

The ITS way of doing things also assumes you can trust your users. I
am willing to make no such assumption. Those days are gone. I miss them.

Something that requires running as root and modifying files (sharing
them between users, even) in the ${PREFIX} tree strikes me as a
BMF security problem. A disaster waiting to happen. 

And... can multiple copies of the emulator use the same disk image?
Does it run as a daemon?

As a sysadmin, I'd say, "you're not installing it like that on *my* box."
As a developer, I'm trying to help you come up with a way to provide this
port that doesn't open up security/vandalism risks. 

My take is that this is not unlike VMware. VMware gives you your own
copy of the disk images in $HOME/vmware. I think that is the right way
to do it.

Anybody else out there in ports land got some input? Pete? 


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