Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:28:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812192328.PAA01225@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:25:43 PST." <199812192325.PAA01197@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > >Automating the WP install in a tidy fashion is close to impossible; I > > >tried this with WP7. If you feed the installer keystrokes in order to > > >tell it where to put things, the user can't select a printer. If you > > >don't, there's no way to force the install location, so you can't build > > >a PLIST. > > > > What did OpenBSD do? I hear they have a port which fixes some serious > > security problems. (If you install WP8 as root, or even RUN it as > > root, you can open security holes; see Bugtraq.) > > I'm looking at their port's Makefile at the moment; it's a bit fragile > in that it assumes that the user reads their instructions and installs > it into /usr/local/corel. Actually, I take that back. Reading their patches, they appear to have worked out how to seed the default installation directory. It'll still have to be interactive, but this one is ready to roll. I'll hit it in a minute. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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