Re: System Integrity Protection in Mac OS El Capitan

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2015-06-28 at 15:22 BST, Benny Siegert wrote:

> I just learned about "System Integrity Protection", which is a feature
> in the next Mac OS version:
> 
> http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really/193379#193379
> 
> Apparently even root now cannot modify /usr, except for /usr/local.
> This sounds like a challenge for pkgsrc, given the default /usr/pkg
> prefix.

I'd love to hear someone from Apple give a definitive list of the
protected directories, and whether there is the possibility of adding
an exclusion for /usr/pkg.

If not then at least for our binary packages we'll just switch to
/opt/pkg, not much else we can do about it.

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