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 Message-ID: <20020112234802.GB69357@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <3C40B663.1000108@surfbest.net> References: <3C40B663.1000108@surfbest.net>
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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? -- Alan Eldridge Pmmfmffmmfmp mmmpppppffmpmfpmpppff PmpMpmMpp ppfppp MpfpffmppmppMmpFmmMpm mfpmmmmmfpmpmpppff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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