Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 16:28:44 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, gurney_j@efn.org Subject: Re: misc/5369: ordinary user cannot ``buildworld'' Message-ID: <199712240528.QAA04824@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> one way to get around this is to override the owner/groups of the > installed stuff... I run the command: > time -l make $* buildworld BINGRP=admin BINOWN=jmg TMACOWN=jmg TMACGRP=admin \ > SHAREOWN=jmg SHAREGRP=admin -DNOINFO -DNOPROFILE -DNOTCL -DNOTERMCAP > > but there are some other parts of the tree that hard code the owner/group > that change be changed, so I still run buildworld from root... I haven't > had time to track down the neccessary changes to get it completely working... I fixed most of them a few days ago. mtree still fails to set lots of ownerships, but the error handling is sloppy enough for this not to be noticed. Bruce
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