From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 14 13:21:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09205 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09171; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA03427; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma003422; Mon Sep 14 13:21:17 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id NAA05491; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199809142021.NAA05491@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: sshd In-Reply-To: <000201bde014$4f3e1b80$ca2aa8c0@ripley.tavari.muc.de> from Lutz Albers at "Sep 14, 98 09:17:26 pm" To: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lutz Albers writes: > > > A more frustrating problem for me are ports that are not > > > ${PREFIX} != /usr/local compatible which makes it a hassle to > > > install multiple version of a port or separate ports that have > > > common files. Also, I occasionaly go through phases of liking > > > SysV way of installing things in /opt/, > > > /etc/opt/ and /var/opt/ which a simple 'make > > > PREFIX=/opt/' doesn't really accomplish. > > > > If someone was interested, it would be easy to write a script > > that checks all the ports: > > (receipe for detecting misbehaving ports deleted) > > This will fail for X11 ports IMHO. The last time I checked they were > installed into X11ROOT (/usr/X11R6). OK.. so amend the recipie accordingly to allow for this. We could also add a "make check" target to bsd.port.mk that would check any individual port for problems. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message