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Re: System Integrity Protection in Mac OS El Capitan



On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
 > I just learned about "System Integrity Protection", which is a feature
 > in the next Mac OS version:
 > 
 > http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really/193379#193379
 > 
 > Apparently even root now cannot modify /usr, except for /usr/local.

Yay, yet another system where you have to root your own hardware if
you want to control it.

 > This sounds like a challenge for pkgsrc, given the default /usr/pkg
 > prefix.
 > 
 > Ideas?

Moving to /opt or something will be a nuisance but not a big deal.

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David A. Holland
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