Subject: Re: packages writing files out of LOCALBASE
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2002 10:10:29
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hi,

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I forgot that bash2 package writes to /etc/shells.
>=20
> Should we consider (or is there) some variable that can be set to say
> whether it is okay to write outside of LOCALBASE?

such feature was recently added to pkgsrc.  update your pkgsrc tree
(at least mk/* and shells/*) and set PKG_REGISTER_SHELLS to NO in
/etc/mk.conf if you don't want to automatically register shells into
/etc/shells.

regards,

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