[PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD

lemon lemon+freebsd at zomo.co.uk
Wed Nov 14 02:36:14 PST 2007


I doubt there's any need for more cautionary tales about the wisdom of
building stuff as root(*), but I can't resist throwing this in as an
example of an astounding build-time glitch with bad consequences if done
as root:

  <http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34680>

Sure: FreeBSD doesn't invoke 'make test', this is a silly error and I'd
expect such things to be noticed by the port maintainer, but hey :-)

regards, l.

(*) FWIW: I agree with Greg, it's a matter of taste or principle. I
bounce between either camp depending if it's in the lab or in production
and some non-linear function of my current laziness.




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