Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 20:57:08 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions and ownership of /usr/src Message-ID: <mirj55$3c8$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20150510190342.GA9986@skytracker.ca> <20150510234531.f2398880.freebsd@edvax.de> <44r3qnfbwl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > >> On Sun, 10 May 2015 15:03:44 -0400, David Banning wrote: >>> Can anyone tell me what the permissions - ownership are/should >>> be for /usr/src ? >> >> /usr/src should belong to root:wheel and have rwxr-xr-x permissions >> (those are the defaults). Does mergemaster indicate an error for >> /usr/src itself or for a subdirectory thereof? I was wondering about this too, e.g. is the permission error in /var/tmp/ when mergemaster is trying to create the temproot directory tree under /var/tmp, and reflecting back through mergemaster when it fails. Somehow, I don't really think it likely, as a time or two I've had a problem like this mergemaster was very explicit about what was wrong. > Or, if the bandwidth isn't a big deal, remove the whole tree and do a > fresh "svn checkout". Or remove the directory where the error is > happening, and do an "svn update". Just something to mention in case anyone is interested: When I cd to /usr/src and do rm -rf * it will delete everything except the hidden directory .svn. Operation not permitted. In order to delete this internal svn housekeeping directory one must first chflags -R noschg .svn Then one can rm -rf .svn normally, and /usr/src will be truly empty. If someone can blow away /usr/src without seeing the operation not permitted error on the .svn directory, something is wrong with the flags under /usr/src/.svn [snip] -Mike
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