Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:50:10PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:45:30PM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > No, there are some instances when that won't work, but they are
> > corner cases. The Solaris support was written on a network with
> > NIS+, and your assumption above does not always hold for that.
> 
> That will fail for a number of packages already, e.g. as soon as
> root has to modify anything in WRKDIR. That is more common than one
> would expect.

With your change, yes, that would be the case.

Or do you mean that this is the reason that pkgsrc on Solaris never
worked?

Regards,
Alistair