portupgrade regression?

[Jonathan Noack]

On 05/05/05 08:40, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2005.04.29 11:10:43 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> [portupgrade regression in portupgrade-20041226_2]
> 
>>I think I have found the way to fix this both so it works for
>>non-root, make pkgdb.db not be updated all the time, and so it does
>>not cause new security problems, but I need to work out a few quirks
>>(my first version did not work correctly).  Hopefully I will get it
>>working this weekend, if not I will add a bandaid so you can make it
>>work by setting an environment variable.
> 
> OK, I think the attached patch should fix the issues so portversion
> works again as non-root and the package database is only regenerated
> when needed.
> 
> I would appreciate if somebody could test the attached patch to
> minimize the risk that I have broken something else.

After applying the patch and updating, I set ENV['PKG_FIXME_FILE'] to 
point to a location that is accessible to my normal user account.  After 
some basic testing I haven't noticed any poor behavior.  Looks like this 
works as advertised...

Thanks!

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Jonathan Noack | noackjr at alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
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