please check your ports, pre-install vs pre-su-install

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:29:01AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> just noticed (by running 'make install' as non-root
> for some ports) that there are many ports in the tree
> use 'pre-install' to perform actions (such as creating
> directories etc) that actually require root permissions,
> and for which i recently learned there is a pre-su-install
> target.
> 
> It would be great if the maintainers could check their
> ports and fix them if needed.
> before the port freeze on the 20th, that is :)

One of the things I'll be doing after the release is changing
pointyhat to look for these (i.e. files installed in pre-install), so
over time they can be eliminated.

I'm not planning to do this before the 20th though.

Kris
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