open-cobol update and destroot sandbox violations (was Re: Package open-cobol not working for me)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 29, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:
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> After seeing https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44485 filed against open-cobol about this same issue, I decided to check up on the upstream bug I had filed that was blocking my update to version 2.0, and found that it had some new responses: https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/bugs/73/
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> Could someone who is more well-versed in the history of MacPorts help me to better explain to upstream why we install to a destroot and prevent writes outside of it?

The explanation you wrote in their ticket sounds pretty good to me!