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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 1997 16:28:44 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, gurney_j@efn.org
Subject:   Re: misc/5369: ordinary user cannot ``buildworld''
Message-ID:  <199712240528.QAA04824@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> one way to get around this is to override the owner/groups of the
> installed stuff...  I run the command:
> time -l make $* buildworld BINGRP=admin BINOWN=jmg TMACOWN=jmg TMACGRP=admin \
> 	SHAREOWN=jmg SHAREGRP=admin -DNOINFO -DNOPROFILE -DNOTCL -DNOTERMCAP
> 
> but there are some other parts of the tree that hard code the owner/group
> that change be changed, so I still run buildworld from root... I haven't
> had time to track down the neccessary changes to get it completely working...

I fixed most of them a few days ago.  mtree still fails to set lots of
ownerships, but the error handling is sloppy enough for this not to be
noticed.

Bruce
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