Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator Message-ID: <200201122040.g0CKe6s42757@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/33818; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Bugs <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:35:19 -0500
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:22:32PM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote:
>Alan Eldridge wrote:
>>
>>Urghh ... you know that all the stuff in libexec is read-only, right?
>>
>>Just thought of that....
>>
>>How's this supposed to be run? Root only?
>>
>>Maybe you ought to put the disk image in, oh, ${PREFIX}/spool/klh10/images.
>>Then at least it's somewhere that's expected to be writable.
>>
>>Anybody else got any ideas on that?
>In what sense is libexec read-only? Diskless support? I suppose you
>could use a spot under /var.
You saw I did the ${CHOWN} and ${CHMOD}. Stuff in those dirs is supposed
to be ${LIBMODE}. That's read-only.
And yes, libexec could be mounted read-only on NFS, for example.
You've got a port that really wants to run as a USER, in a private
directory.
Perhaps the way this works needs to be thought out a bit more. Like,
installing the compressed image and providing a "user install" script,
which makes a user directory with the uncompressed image.
If you work on the master image, then what are you supposed to do when
you fsck it up? Reinstall the port? Not a good solution.
COMMITTERS: Suggest changing status of 33816 and 33818 to feedback
pending resolution of installation and other issues.
Oh, Ken, could you do a "Big-R" reply to get the Cc: to gnats in there?
--
Alan Eldridge
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