cvs commit: ports/net/skype Makefile

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 14 14:17:09 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:51:34AM +0000, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> bsam        2009-05-14 04:51:34 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     net/skype            Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Create ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} before doing ${COPYTREE_SHARE}.
>   Without this step installing the port at 7.x has the effect:
>   -----
>   % ls -ld /usr/local/share/skype
>   drwx------  6 root  wheel  512 12 May 12:20 /usr/local/share/skype
>   % skype
>   /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied
>   -----
>   FreeBSD 8.x is not affected since it uses BSD cpio (at ${COPYTREE_SHARE})
>   which behaves as expected.
>   
>   Note: packages are not affected, no PORTREVISION bump.

Since this is a problem with cpio differences between 8.x and earlier
could we possibly instrument COPYTREE_SHARE to make the directory first
if OSVERSION is one where cpio is known to behave this way?

I recalled seeing this mentioned in the past and found:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-April/054239.html

Thanks for fixing this though!

-- WXS


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