From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 13:35:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3ED1065670 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rflynn@acsalaska.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1348FC17 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (squeeze.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.30]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806DE7E8A1 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:35:39 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <4FBF8AA6.30304@acsalaska.net> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:35:34 +0200 From: Mel Flynn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ports FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Packages target 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: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:35:46 -0000 Hi, over the past few weeks I've been using the ports system without any ports-mgmt tool and have become utterly convinced that the PACKAGE_SEQ needs to be PACKAGE_SUSEQ for all but package-message. The primary reason is that the install target can install hierarchies or files not readable by the unprivileged user and as such the package target will fail. I'm not aware of any downsides to making this change in bpm or am I overlooking something? -- Mel