At 11:32 Uhr -0500 13.2.2002, 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:
>
>===> Becoming root@xxx.research.att.com to install xcolors-1.3.
>su Password:
>install -c   xcolors /usr/X11R6/bin/xcolors
>install -c -m 0444 Xcolors.ad /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xcolors
>install in . done
>install.man in . done
>cannot create
>/amd/test/root/usr/netbsd/current/pkgsrc/x11/xcolors/work/.PLIST:
>permission denied
>*** Error code 2
>
>
>is there any way to work around this?   it used to work fine.

A union mount?

	hauke


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