From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 09:25:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF4F0622 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7B142658 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s789P1gW065798 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:25:01 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 188437] New port: security/softether Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:25:01 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Ports Tree X-Bugzilla-Component: Individual Port(s) X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Only Me X-Bugzilla-Who: marino@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Status: Open X-Bugzilla-Priority: Normal X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: bug_status Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:25:01 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188437 John Marino changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|Patch Ready |Open --- Comment #11 from John Marino --- (In reply to T. S. from comment #10) > Well - I'm aware it's not really nice to put everything into one directory, > though the situation is that the binaries write data files into the same > directory where the binaries are put - it's coded this way. > /home/softether isn't the place, in my opinion, where server software should > be put, /var/softether (or some kind of sub-directory) too. Maybe this hack would be alright: 1) install softether not in /usr/local/bin and not executable 2) Make an executable script that copies (if it doesn't exist) softether to $HOME directory, make it executable, and run it there. your script just has to known where to only execute or copy then execute first. At least this would be legal. > For now - please put this on hold - will see if the authors of the software > can modify it in some way that data files, dynamic configuration etc. are > placed where they should belong. This sounds like a good idea. I don't know any package system that would tolerate this, so it's surprising that it's set up this way. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.