converters/mpack doesn't apply the patch properly

Vahan Yerkanian vahan at arminco.com
Wed Mar 1 10:02:12 PST 2006


1.6 is the latest if you update your ports collection via cvsup or 
portsnap. If you look into files directory, there are patches that are 
supposed to change /usr/tmp into /tmp, but they don't seem working.

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Wednesday, March 01, 2006 20:08:44 +0400 Vahan Yerkanian 
> <vahan at arminco.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I thought FreeBSD default install doesn't create /usr/tmp directory... If
>> you install mpack from the packages it works ok, the problem manifests
>> itself when you try to portupgrade or install it via ports.
>> See below:
>>
> I just bulit from source, and the same problem exists (including the use 
> of "/usr/tmp" instead of "/tmp"), so it's something in the source code.
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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