Re: pkg writing to /

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:56:37 UTC
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 11:37 PM Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> 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
>

What command are you using? Normally pkg should not be writing to root
unless one of the files it does write to is on the same file system.
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