Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:53:16 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: =?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3Futf-8=3FQ=3FDag-Erling=5FSm=3DC3=3DB8rgrav=3F=3D?= <des@des.no> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER Message-ID: <10072.1414165996@chaos> In-Reply-To: <86wq7p4zcx.fsf@nine.des.no> References: <96C0B2BE-0621-4162-BBB7-7D34AEAB5FD0@gmail.com> <21044.1414038558@chaos> <E40CAE9C-0C6B-4D7C-879E-53926D0A775E@bsdimp.com> <9250.1414076335@chaos> <86wq7p4zcx.fsf@nine.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> writes: > > Hmm I have it permanently set in a projects/bmake tree that builds > > buildworld etc fine (while producing meta files) - though its been a > > month or two since last sync. >=20 > WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER does not modify buildworld, so that's moot. It > modifies installworld, and it does not work: Ah I never tried that=20 Though I guess the knob name implies it should do something useful. Ok, that explains the "brokenness" I wasn't aware of. > All it does is set the default *BIN / *GRP to the user name and primary > group name of the current user. It does not prevent Makefiles from > overriding them (or from setting chflags like libc does). If that were desired, it would be simple enough to add them to=20 .MAKEOVERRIDES (treats them as though they were set on command line) But it sounds like NO_ROOT already solves this issue?
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