Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:49:52 +0000 From: "Frank Leonhardt (m)" <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsnap fails if not root Message-ID: <A105B283-48FC-4590-BA34-5C1F2322CEAC@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6D5CB8A0-F31D-4899-BBF0-4208CDC34624@fjl.co.uk> References: <6D5CB8A0-F31D-4899-BBF0-4208CDC34624@fjl.co.uk>
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On 14 November 2017 15:24:32 GMT+00:00, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> wrote: >Is there any reason why portsnap has to run as root? If you specify >alternative ports dir and db dir using -p and - d, it should download >and unpack stuff in home directory. > >Trouble us that it gets the tag, and starts fetching Metadata, but >terminates with no message before it prints ..done. Not even a /n. > >Anyone know why before I start digging? Okay, port snap is just shell script. Fetch fails and it just bombs. Will have a fix soon... -- Sent from my Cray X/MP with small fiddling keyboard.
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