Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:00:44 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk, kpaasial@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explain staging Message-ID: <65A7DC13FD82CFF64C8FF093@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> 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 October 7, 2013 10:37:34 AM +0100 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Set DISTDIR in make.conf to for example /home/memyself/distfiles and >> move the existing distfiles there. There's no reasonable default for >> DISTDIR I think if it's assumed that fetch operates as non-root. >> >> -Kimmo > > 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. > Absolutely correct. A change of this magnitude needs to be much better documented than it has been so far. Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell
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