Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:18:46 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports foot-shooting revealed! (learning the hard way ...) Message-ID: <20050131221846.GY9276@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20050131134716.D1062@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20050131150624.GO9276@seekingfire.com> <20050131134716.D1062@ync.qbhto.arg>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > ># cd /usr/pots/security/tor > >bash: cd: usr/pots/security/tor: No such file or directory > > echo 'shopt -s cdspell' >> ~/.bashrc Already in my ~/.bashrc for my user, but not for root[1]. Along with bash-completion, portinstall, and a bunch of other things that I've been emailed about off-list. I'm fairly familiar with my tools of choice ;-) The problem isn't my less-than-glorious typing abilities[2], it's that running `make install` from /usr/ports does something unexpected and annoying. Note that I'm not asking for it to be "fixed" because I'm not convinced that it's broken. It makes sense in hindsight, so there's an argument that it's the correct thing to do. But it's unexpected and potentially service interrupting (disks get full, etc). So at the risk of turning this into a "learn how to type, you idiot" discussion I wanted to get something into the archives so that other folks would have awareness of it and perhaps consider workarounds like `cd foo/bar && make install`, portinstall, cdspell, or whatever else works for them. -T 1. Yeah, su (or ksu in my case) would handle this, as would a whole raft of other suggestions. That solves the _symptom_. 2. Well, yeah, it's a problem, but it's not the one I wanted to point out ;-) -- You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string. - The Zensunni Whip
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