Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:35:37 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: kpaasial@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explain staging Message-ID: <52538B99.1030803@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <201310070937.r979bY2e043286@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201310070937.r979bY2e043286@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 10/07/2013 04:37 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: <snip> > sure, I can do /tmp/distfiles too. > But that doesn't help with all the other failing targets. > Then I might as well "chown -R user:group /usr/ports" > and update the ports tree as an unprivileged user too. > HOwever, security would suffer, I think. > And, anyway, this would be a major change. > If this were the case, it should be much > better documented, I think. >From my /etc/make.conf: ----8<---- # Read-only ports tree DISTDIR=/var/ports/distfiles PACKAGES=/var/ports/packages WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj ----8<---- Solves this problem quite nicely. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Furry Peace! - http://www.fur.com/peace/
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