[Bug 188437] New port: security/softether

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188437

John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to T. S. from comment #10)
> Well - I'm aware it's not really nice to put everything into one directory,
> though the situation is that the binaries write data files into the same
> directory where the binaries are put - it's coded this way.
> /home/softether isn't the place, in my opinion, where server software should
> be put, /var/softether (or some kind of sub-directory) too.

Maybe this hack would be alright:
1) install softether not in /usr/local/bin and not executable
2) Make an executable script that copies (if it doesn't exist) softether to
$HOME directory, make it executable, and run it there.

your script just has to known where to only execute or copy then execute first.
At least this would be legal.


> For now - please put this on hold - will see if the authors of the software
> can modify it in some way that data files, dynamic configuration etc. are
> placed where they should belong.

This sounds like a good idea.  I don't know any package system that would
tolerate this, so it's surprising that it's set up this way.

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