Building Pine with PASSFILE option

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Ignore this one please ... I figured a way out!

In Makefile
-----------

pre-fetch:
.if !defined(BATCH) && !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) && 
!defined(WITH_PASSFILE)
         ${SH} pkg-install
.endif
.if !defined(BATCH) && !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) && 
defined(WITH_PASSFILE)
         ${SH} pkg-install WITH_PASSFILE
.endif

And now I can test if $1 is WITH_MAKEFILE in pkg-install and show the 
dialog accordingly!

That was fun! :)

Regards,
Rakhesh

Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

>
>> You would then need to add a warning when this option is enabled, as
>> according to
>> doc/tech-notes.txt this option is dangerous:
>>
>>   PASSFILE
>>          _WARNING!_ Turning this on is very dangerous and should
>>          probably not be done, except on single user systems! For
>> :
>
> I'm stuck here!
>
> I went through the Pine Makefile coz I recollect it giving me a warning about 
> Pine not recommended by the FreeBSD Security Officer. And I also went through 
> the Porter's Handbook (very briefly). From these two I learnt about the 
> "pkg-install" file and so I tried putting in something there to popup as a 
> warning after the first warning.
>
> /usr/bin/dialog --msgbox "_WARNING!_ Turning the PASSFILE option on is very 
> dangerous and should probably not be done, except on single user systems!" 7 
> 70
>
> But thing is -- how do I make this warning appear *only* if the PASSFILE 
> option is chosen? From what I can see, the "WITH_PASSFILE" variable is not 
> visible to the "pkg-install" file and so I can't use that to wrap the dialog 
> around an if ... fi block. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Rakhesh
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