On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:32:02AM -0500, Chuck Cranor wrote:
>     i used to be able to have my pkgsrc on a remote NFS server (not
> managed by me) and everything would work fine.    a while ago this 
> got broken because "make install" started wanting to write to 
> work/.PLIST as root:
[SNIP]
> is there any way to work around this?   it used to work fine.

If you can put your obj dir on a local fs with something like the following in
/etc/mk.conf:

WRKOBJDIR=/local/obj

Cheers, Stoned.