Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:53:27 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port trees which are not chmod root:wheel Message-ID: <3BB88367.29449.9A51B6@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011001203327.A5887@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <3BB86D7B.28940.44B171@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:19:55PM -0400
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On 1 Oct 2001 at 20:33, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:19:55PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > I have need to use a a ports tree which is not chmod root:wheel. This > > tree > > s/chmod/chown/ Doh, thanks. That's what I meant.... and what I used. I've already chown'd the tree. Now I'm just waiting for a commit to come through. > > will be used exclusively by FreshPorts. Is anyone already using a non > > root:wheel ports tree? I'm guessing that I just need to run cvsup as > > the uid which owns the tree and all will be well. Suggestions/comments > > welcomed here. > > No problems in actual use - although a very few ports will not *build* as > a non-root user (converters/libiconv comes to mind), the majority works > flawlessly here: > > [stijn@firsa] <~> ls -ld /usr/ports > drwxr-xr-x 55 src src 1536 Sep 25 05:30 /usr/ports I don't be building ports in this tree. Just running a large number of "make -V" commands. If I did want to build from the tree, I'd run as root. > Note that this is not writable for me, so I set WRKDIRPREFIX in > /etc/make.conf to something like /local/build - if you can't write to > $WRKDIR, the system will barf. Ahhh! Now that's a good tip. thank you. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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