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2009 Jun 01
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A couple of small, paid userland hacker projects.
...the following: (1) Make pkg_add(1) not use system(3) to execute external programs to do things that it can implement internally (i.e. calling out to tar(1) is fine, calling out to mkdir(1) is not.) Alternately, rewrite pkg_add as a sh(1) shell script, with perhaps a minimal utility written in C (pkg_admin?) to muck with /var/db/pkg. (2) Add an option to specify an alternate root for pkg_add(1) to install into. This means that if pkg_add(1) were passed an alternate root of '/foo' instead of updating /var/db/pkg, it would update /foo/var/db/pkg; instead of untarring to /usr/local/bin it woul...