tech-pkg: packages writing files out of LOCALBASE

Subject: packages writing files out of LOCALBASE
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/01/2002 14:00:25

I forgot that bash2 package writes to /etc/shells.

Should we consider (or is there) some variable that can be set to say
whether it is okay to write outside of LOCALBASE?

Comments?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/