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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:56:14 +0200
From:      Alessandro de Manzano <adm@unixmania.net>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, randall ehren <randall@ucsb.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make buildworld problems
Message-ID:  <20020609185614.D58910@libero.sunshine.ale>
In-Reply-To: <20020609204933.W7944-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>; from marck@rinet.ru on Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:51:11PM %2B0400
References:  <20020609184130.B58910@libero.sunshine.ale> <20020609204933.W7944-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:51:11PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> AdM> I've just config'ed my /var's to be (also) noexec and I planned for
> AdM> tomorrow a rebuild of all systems but now I'm worried... ;-)
> AdM>
> AdM> Could you or someone else, please, spread light on this ? :-)
> 
> At least `installworld' phase from RELENG_4 uses pre-built install script
> in /var/tmp due to possibility of Read-only  /usr/src. I wonder why this

oh... I did not know ...

> script can't be placed under /usr/obj, which seems for me much more
> appropriate

yeah, my ignorance of build system internals tells me it sound
reasonable ;-)

IMHO it's quite annoying turning off noexec on /var's just to
rebuild/reinstall systems...

at least a little check in the installworld script(s) to prevent bad
errors and stops later..


-- 

bye!

Ale


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