Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:26:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/ Message-ID: <4C186EA7.1060302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E1OOlYo-000Fi2-WC@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <1276639800.2462.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1276646707.2462.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C18195A.3020501@delphij.net> <E1OOlYo-000Fi2-WC@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On 06/15/10 22:53, Daniel Braniss wrote: > A similar 'security feature' was introduced sometime ago, wich 'silently' > broke firefox instalation , it refused to allow symlinks in destination > directory, of course the error was ignored by 'make install' so it took > some time later to find out that nothing was installed - my /usr/local is > symlinked. The solution was to 'fix' cpio to behave as before, since adding > the ignore-symlinks feature to firefox's makefile was beyond me:-) I'm sorry to hear that you had problems with this, but I'd like to take this opportunity to make a plea that when you (pl.) run into problems like this that you report them when they happen. I know that after taking time to track down problems the last thing you want to do is take MORE time to report them, but the 5 minutes you spend reporting it today can save hours for other users down the road. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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