Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:13:45 +0100 From: Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Permissions of /usr/ports ? Message-ID: <19991122181345.A11464@phy.hr>
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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
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