pkg_delete and +DEINSTALL

[Chris Rees]

On 10 June 2012 19:55, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> While pkgng is growing momentum I have a small suggestion for outgoing pkg_* tools.
> It seems that pkg_delete performs something like exec(+DEINSTALL, ...).
> I think that it would be better to do exec(/bin/sh, +DEINSTALL, ...).
> Rationale:
> - no need to set x bit on +DEINSTALL
> - no need to allow exec on /var/db filesystem
> The problem is discovered by actually using noexec mount option.

I don't think this is a bad idea, so I've copied in flz, the de-facto
pkg_install maintainer....

.... but don't forget that pkg_install is very close to death!

Chris