Re: pkg writing to /

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:07:12 UTC
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:57:55AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> is this true also for ‘pky update’?

I don't understand the question here, pkg update does not do anything in /

Best regards,
Bapt
> 
> the /compat was a problem,
> it was a symlink /usr/local/compat and for some reason the mkdir /compat/linux failed,
> i did as root ‘mkdir /usr/local/compat/linux’, and linux installed ok.
> danny
> 
> 
> > On 6 Mar 2023, at 09:52, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 09:37:32AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 	how can I tell pkg not to write to /? in my case sometimes /
> >> is mounted ro, and so for example pkg update failed, or
> >> / - which is usually- kept as small as possible gets filled up, eg 
> >> by /.pkgtemp.compat.xxxxx/linux
> >> 
> >> thanks,
> >> 	danny
> >> 
> >> 
> > This is because you don't have a /compat on your / but you are trying to
> > install a package that installs files under /compat
> > 
> > Bapt
>