Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:24:26 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: PauAmma <pauamma@gundo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: PR ports/76915 fell through the cracks? Message-ID: <447E881A.2010507@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606010031080.23594@javelin.gundo.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605310018540.23594@javelin.gundo.com> <20060531140027.GA63707@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606010031080.23594@javelin.gundo.com>
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PauAmma wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:49:35AM -0500, PauAmma wrote: >>> >>> When /var (or whichever filesystem holds PKG_DBDIR) is mounted noexec, >>> attempts to deinstall ports will fail and leave a mess behind if the >>> port has a require or deinstall script. This patch checks for that and >>> skips deinstalling if that is the case. >> >> I don't know that it's a worthwhile problem to solve. > > It is for me, or I wouldn't have done it, obviously. But you're a > committer and I'm not, so I'm hardly in a position to argue. Still, I'm > curious. What's your rationale? 1. You add a quite bulk of code that just warn user. 2. You add running of a few utilities to check it. It increase time on deinstalling and people who newer mount /var as noexec (the most I guess) will unhappy. And we suppose a user who mount /var with noexec flag should know he got in troubles. -- Dixi. Sem.
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