re: kern/43439

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

>  Has this twisty setup ever worked, or should it just be filed under
>  "don't do it"?

i've been doing it like this since when ever pkgsrc first gained
r/o support, which is a decade or more ago.

why is it a twisty setup?

>  I would solve writable pkgdist by setting DISTDIR in /etc/mk.conf.

that's a pretty crappy solution to something that has worked for a
very long time and panics *every* kernel.  (it triggers one of the
very few situations that non-LOCKDEBUG kernels complain about.)


.mrg.