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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:29:30 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/xemacs-devel Makefile ports/editors/xemacs21 Makefile
Message-ID:  <20011027142930.U25747@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110271627.f9RGRIS50054@peedub.muc.de>
References:  <200110262246.f9QMkfU90547@freefall.freebsd.org> <200110271603.f9RG3s849784@peedub.muc.de> <20011027111949.C49690@hellblazer.nectar.com> <200110271627.f9RGRIS50054@peedub.muc.de>

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 06:27:18PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > 2) /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk uses it too, which is precedent

My reaction:  It does?!?

> > This is  almost certainly a mistake.   Please do not use 
> > /tmp, as the permissions are unsafe.
> 
> Yeah, I just committed your suggestion after reconsidering it. I 
> should have thought of that myself.
> 
> It seems that the use of /tmp in bsd.port.mk may be a mistake, 
> in light of this exchange.

Yes!  This is a mistake.  This is in the fake-pkg target, which
is called when someone runs 'make install'.  It really should be
using ${WRKDIR}...

-- 
wca

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