Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:42:59 +0900 From: Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod -R g+w /usr/ports? Message-ID: <20050407113807.D33B.REES@ddcom.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20050406131214.GA5511@droopy.unibe.ch> References: <20050406200627.C9C7.REES@ddcom.co.jp> <20050406131214.GA5511@droopy.unibe.ch>
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:12:15 +0200 Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> wrote > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:06:46PM +0900, Joel wrote: > > > > What am I missing, besides the obvious -- make install won't fly without > > > > su or sudo? > > > > > > you're missing WRKDIRPREFIX > > > > Thanks, t. > > > > Does that mean that if the port honors WRKDIRPREFIX, I can even > > make install without switching to root? No? > > No (as someone else already pointed out). > > > Actually, what I'm trying to ask about is the advisability of opening > > the ports tree to writes from the group, if I make sure the only member > > of wheel is the admin user I use for installs. (I hardly make sense to > > myself sometimes.) > > There is no need to do that if you set WRKDIRPREFIX and DISTDIR. The > former can be cleaned out before a make, so write permissions for > non-wheel users are no problem. And since distfiles have their hash > values checked before extraction, having user write permissions for the > latter also is no problem. Okay, with this and the other comments, I think I've got the picture now. Rather than muck with the permissions in the system maintained tree, just move the tree to a directory my installer user owns. Then I can build the package outside of the root-owned file system and do a pkg_add with the result? That'll be something to try out over the weekend. Thanks, all. -- Joel Rees <rees@ddcom.co.jp> digitcom, inc. $B3t<02q<R%G%8%3%`(B Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp>; **
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