Den tors 18 okt. 2018 kl 19:55 skrev schwack <[email protected]>:
>
> Was prepping for 6.4 upgrade and noticed a bunch of *_writes_to_HOME
> directories in my root file systyem. (as shown below)
> All created on Sept 16th. Not sure what I might have been doing on the system
> that day.
"building ports" most likely.
> Any thoughts on what these directories are, how they got there, and if safe
> to delete?
>
yes.
Googling for openbsd writes_to_home points to bsd.port.mk, and the env
PORTHOME for which the manpage of bsd.port.mk
says:
PORTHOME
Setting of env variable HOME for most shell invocations. Default
will trip ports that try to write into $HOME while building.
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