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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > I think Grant mentioned this before:  at the moment, pkgsrc can't be
> > read-only because even with WRKOBJDIR set, it will create symlinks for
> > the workdir.  The attached patch fixes this by allowing the user to set
> > PKGSRC_READONLY, and, if that is set, default to /tmp as
> > WRKDIR_BASENAME.  With PKGSRC_READONLY set, we might want to consider
> > some more defaults: DISTDIR, PACKAGES, ... ?
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> I used pkgsrc in a read-only scenario last week, and it worked fine.

How did you set WRKOBJDIR or how did your system create the symlink if
the pkgsrc tree was read-only?

(Though I agree that auto-detection would be nice.)

-Jan

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DON'T PANIC!

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