From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 07:33:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AF616A412 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:33:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B8843D53 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:33:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so51776uge for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:33:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BYN7LrSFP2cspjqUjLMqsRlvoKYJlXg4YSRTJShmBQEx4P76RosAGL2OjIBdxgAPHx8Pty2Z0fUvwsZ3S75zIsOdpUwMCgCDvqaX6laQBWzNGSV92/FjHhN7nY6ty7kk5W/4kTpnGTCp0UpLHrHTvHxn9q8bAlybZ0LLu7suE3c= Received: by 10.67.21.11 with SMTP id y11mr161718ugi.1162452836484; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.86.8 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:33:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0611012333u1edf0d7ahfb0b4d74d66748fe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:33:56 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: Eric In-Reply-To: <454961DC.8000804@mikestammer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <010f01c6fe10$a9e3d390$0901a8c0@TWEETY> <454961DC.8000804@mikestammer.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, glarkin@sourcehosting.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: WebCalendar-1.0.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:33:59 -0000 On 11/1/06, Eric wrote: > sounds good. thanks for taking care of that so fast. i think its the > ports standard to install to www and not the data directory in order to > prevent people from drilling into directories of uninitiated apps and > whatnot before the administrator is ready. > > perhaps someone else knows the exact details? Kris? > Thats one of the reasons. I believe another reason is so that the port doesn't overwrite the files in the www/data directory and then causing damage to the website. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.