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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:58:05 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to disable staging support in ports tree universally?
Message-ID:  <20131013115805.GG91605@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20131012134413.GA35617@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20131012055953.GA4352@icarus.home.lan> <5259051D.7060205@FreeBSD.org> <20131012134413.GA35617@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:44:13PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:15:25AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Yes, there are a lot of changes happening at the moment.  We're trying
> > to catch up with ten or more years of progress in a year or so.  The
> > technical reasoning behind our implementing these changes has been
> > discussed elsewhere so I'll not rehash it further here other than to say
> > that the vast majority of ports users and developers are behind where
> > we're going with this.
>=20
> One of the most annoying things about staging (for me) is that it broke
> many ports "make install" from regular user.  E.g. audio/faad and misc/mc
> are affected, just to name a few.
>=20
> At a glance, it happens because they first install files with 444 perms,
> and then try to do something on them.  Previously it was done after su(1)
> had asked for root, but with staging, it's done as user, and thus fails.
>=20
> ./danfe
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this needs to be reported and fixed, as it shouldn't happen. there is a
NEED_ROOT option for those ports.

I have ben testing them just succesfully myself. if anything breaks just re=
port
it. along with the error for you.

nedding root to create packages in 2013 is just insane, stage by default is
enabled with full process of package creation as a user and alloss to fallb=
ack
in case kof insane ports.

Bapt

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