Re: gtar-base failure as root

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:24:47AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > a) I know standard advice is not to use root but b) pkg_install into the
> > > system has to
> >
> > pkg_install doesn't run configure.
>
> sorry, I meant that one has to run pkg_install as root.
>
> > > and so that's where the trojan would be
> >
> > Not if it's a distfile trojan.
>
> I meant if one were to trojan a distfile, then the best place to put it
> is a step that has to be run privileged.
>
> > > and c) it ought to work.
> >
> > Have you tried setting the environment variable? If it works, you can
> > add it to the pkgsrc Makefile.
>
> No, I built a package unprived and that worked.
>
> I wonder how upstream would react to the bug report...
>
> > > Is this a general issuein new autoconf, or a point issue in gtar?
> >
> > I haven't seen this before.
>
> OK, thanks.

This make things inconvenient for running pkg_rolling-replace, doesn't
it?

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