I actually just tried. I have an /opt but I can create and delete other things in the root. So we may be ok. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Obviously anything in /bin or /usr that isn’t /usr/local is off limits. —Mark On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:50 AM Kridsada Thanabulpong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running Catalina for a while and from my quick testing of > creating .rootro, reboot, and mkdir /sw, the whole process went through > just fine and /sw become writable (thanks to firmlinks). > > I couldn't try creating /opt because I already had it from Mojave. > > So far, the only issue seems to be you cannot completely remove /opt or > /sw anymore once they're created. mkdir is fine, but rmdir'ing them will > result in "Operation not permitted" error. > > I'm not able to test if this is still the case with the Public Beta > (my MacBook has battery defect). I can experiment again once I regain > access to a Mac. > > Regards, > Kridsada > > Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Jun 29, 2019, at 19:53, Mark Anderson wrote: > > > >> Do we have any plans with how to deal with 10.15 not allowing us to > create /opt if it doesn’t exist? Or does /opt just come with the file > system? I can’t remember. > > > > macOS does not come with an /opt directory. > > > > I was not aware that macOS Catalina will prevent the creation of such > directories, but I haven't read up on the new system yet. If that is true, > then that sounds like a problem for us. > > > > > > Just a reminder, make sure that anything discussed about Catalina on > this mailing list is information that has already been publicly released. > > > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#prerelease >
