From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 9:16:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from macbeth.phy.hr (macbeth.phy.hr [161.53.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0019152E1 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:15:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkumer@macbeth.phy.hr) Received: (from kkumer@localhost) by macbeth.phy.hr (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11490 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:13:45 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:13:45 +0100 From: Kresimir Kumericki To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Permissions of /usr/ports ? Message-ID: <19991122181345.A11464@phy.hr> Reply-To: kkumer@phy.hr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When installing new packages on Unices I usually follow the procedure where I do all the preparatory work (fetching, applying patches, playing with configuration, building the executable, testing) as nonprivileged user and only do "make install" as root. (BTW, I do "make -n install" first.) Now, I cannot do that with FreeBSD ports because nonprivileged users don't have write permission on /usr/ports . What do you people do? Do everything as root? If I made /usr/ports/* writable by some other user or group I presume that that would interfere with updating the ports via cvsup. Any suggestions or comments? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Kresimir Kumericki kkumer@phy.hr http://www.phy.hr/~kkumer/ Theoretical Physics Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message