From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 21:06:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36E416A4CE; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:06:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.lovett.com (core.lovett.com [216.168.8.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9740443D2D; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:06:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from klendathu.lovett.com ([67.134.38.155]) by mail.lovett.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CycZ2-0005gW-HP; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:06:28 +0000 Message-ID: <420929D7.5040500@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:06:31 -0800 From: Ade Lovett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <200501190505.j0J55Jj2023425@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200501190505.j0J55Jj2023425@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/76422: devel/automake ports fail to install when built as non-root X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:06:28 -0000 > The pre-install and post-install targets are not run with elevated > privileges, so the mkdir commands in the pre-install target fail > when trying to install as non-root (in other words, su seems to > only be applied for do-install) A quick scan of the ports tree seems to indicate that a significant percentage of *all* ports appear to have this issue. I can certainly go ahead and make the change to automake*, and even autoconf* and libtool* at the same time, but these are only 8 ports out of many thousands that currently require elevated privileges in pre-install and post-install targets. It may make considerably more sense to do a complete sweep of the tree rather than piecemeal. ports@ cc'd for a wider audience. -aDe