Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:54:48PM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 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.

No, I mean with or without this change. If root doesn't have write
access to 644 files or 755 directories, a number of (important) packages
would have failed in such a setup already. Those that set
PRIVILEGED_STAGES=clean are the most noticable example, but many others
fall into this categorie as well. Or does Solaris in such an example
disallow access to 700, but creation or modifications of files?

Joerg