On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > flz, > > In r206043 you converted fexists() in src/lib/libpkg/file.c to use open() > instead of lstat(). Unfortunately this has the side effect of breaking > 'pkg_info -g' for unprivileged users with files that have no +r bits. For > example: > > pkg_info -g sudo-1.7.4.6 > Information for sudo-1.7.4.6: > > Mismatched Checksums: > pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudo doesn't exist > pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudoedit doesn't exist > pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudoreplay doesn't exist > pkg_info: /usr/local/sbin/visudo doesn't exist
How can you compute the checksum if you don't have read access? I understand that the error message should rather be "Cannot open %s". > Reverting your change produces the expected behavior. So my questions are, > why was the change made, what are its benefits, and how can we fix this > problem? :) I'm sure there was a good reason at the time. I'll have a better look later. -- Florent Thoumie f...@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
