FreeBSD port x11-toolkits/vte makes /usr(local world writable

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:21:07 -0500, V.Chukharev <chukharev at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen the following error a number of times after upgrading the  
> ports last month or two.
> $ portversion -OvL=
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:1137: warning: Insecure  
> world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgmisc.rb:136: warning: Insecure  
> world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777
>
> Indeed, the dir is world writable:
> $ ls -ld /usr/local
> drwxrwxrwx  27 root  wheel  512  2 Jun 21:57 /usr/local
>
> Since I usually make just upgrade of all ports, I could not tell which  
> does the change.
> Today I was upgrading the ports one-by-one. And the last one,  
> x11-toolkits/vte, made
> the dir world writable. I thought maintainer should know this fact ;-)

I can't reproduce it when I reinstalled vte.

# ls -ld /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel  512 Jun  7 08:42 /usr/local/

Cheers,
Mezz

> Best regards,


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