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Subject: ports/11093: remind user that he needs to be root to install port
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>Number:         11093
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       remind user that he needs to be root to install port
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 11 20:30:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mikhail Kruk
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD polkan2.dyndns.org 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #1: Sun Mar 21 03:01:34 EST 1999     meshko@polkan2.dyndns.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL5.1  i386

>Description:
Well, may be the problem is with me (most likely) but still i think 
somebody must have had the same problem...
I've been using ports collection for two years now (so I am not 
total newbie) and I think it's great, but I always repeat the same
mistake -- I cd /usr/ports/whatever and try to make forgetting to su.
The problem is that make starts fine and connects to ftp site and starts
download when it finally notices that it can't create the local file!
First of all with slow connection it takes some time before I find out 
that I screwed up. But what is even worth it actually took me some time
to figure out what does this permission denied message mean. I thought 
that file is closed on the ftp server! (yes, yes, very dumb, thank you)
Well, anyway I guess it would be nice to have makefile check if user
have access to ports directory and report error clearly...
thanks for your time
-mk
>How-To-Repeat:
su guest; cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs; make
>Fix:


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