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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:33:27 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port trees which are not chmod root:wheel
Message-ID:  <20011001203327.A5887@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3BB86D7B.28940.44B171@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:19:55PM -0400
References:  <3BB86D7B.28940.44B171@localhost>

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:19:55PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> I have need to use a a ports tree which is not chmod root:wheel.  This tree

s/chmod/chown/

> will be used exclusively by FreshPorts.  Is anyone already using a non
> root:wheel ports tree?  I'm guessing that I just need to run cvsup as the
> uid which owns the tree and all will be well. Suggestions/comments welcomed
> here.

No problems in actual use - although a very few ports will not *build*
as a non-root user (converters/libiconv comes to mind), the majority
works flawlessly here:

[stijn@firsa] <~> ls -ld /usr/ports
drwxr-xr-x  55 src  src  1536 Sep 25 05:30 /usr/ports

Note that this is not writable for me, so I set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf
to something like /local/build - if you can't write to $WRKDIR, the system
will barf.

--Stijn

-- 
"I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."

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