MacPorts 2.0.0-beta2 now available for testing

[Rainer Müller]

On 07/06/2011 02:15 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> And I'm not convinced setting it to /var/empty is a great solution.
> The issue in response to which you changed it from /dev/null to
> /var/empty was about a program's inability to create some sort of
> directory in home for its settings. So now it's going to create that
> settings directory inside /var/empty, which seems wrong; that
> directory *should* remain empty. I don't know if the OS cleans it out
> at some point.

The user 'macports' will not have write access to /var/empty and thus
cannot create any files there.

Rainer