Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:18:50 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk -- installing ports as non-root Message-ID: <20030317221850.GD23484@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0303171607320.20815@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0303161246490.43104@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20030316225446.GB19051@rot13.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.51.0303171607320.20815@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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--ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:19:36PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Thanks for looking at that patchlet! How shall we proceed? May I > commit this after the ports freeze is over, or are you going to > take care of it, or should I file a PR and send you the number? Send it as a pr and assign it to portmgr, and I'll whack it on the first 4-exp test run after 4.8 along with some other pending changes. > I haven't done extensive testing, but I'm afraid the number is high. :-( At some point after this is committed I could try to do a full build/install as a non-root user to gather statistics. > One thing I noticed, for example with textproc/sgmlformat, is that this > port uses /usr/share/mk/ to build and install, and the Makefiles there > lack the "intelligence" of the ports collection Makefiles (which avoid > chown if not run as root), so you have to manually set BINOWN, BINGRP, > MANOWN, MANGRP, etc. Would you consider accepting a patch that tries > to avoid that also in case of /usr/share/mk? That also sounds reasonable. Kris --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dknKWry0BWjoQKURAioCAKDG+R+WCVS/uAufgKOQH45CBr/UyACg3N+P 99YEy0Ftjls1jmjcIOs7HjA= =gTC1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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