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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:28:57 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r367707 - stable/12/share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <202011151228.0AFCSvgX093125@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
Date: Sun Nov 15 12:28:57 2020
New Revision: 367707
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367707

Log:
  MFC r367253:
  
  Document how to use sudo for SU_CMD
  
  It is rather common for the ports users to replace su(1) with sudo(8)
  within the SU_CMD variable. Let's document it in the manual page (so far
  it's been hidden in a comment within bsd.commands.mk).

Modified:
  stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7
Directory Properties:
  stable/12/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7	Sun Nov 15 11:56:16 2020	(r367706)
+++ stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7	Sun Nov 15 12:28:57 2020	(r367707)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd July 17, 2020
+.Dd November 1, 2020
 .Dt PORTS 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -390,7 +390,10 @@ The unprivileged user must have write access to
 and
 .Va DISTDIR .
 The default is
-.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c
+.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c .
+Many users set it to
+.Ql /usr/local/bin/sudo -E sh -c
+for convenience.
 .It Va PACKAGES
 Used only for the
 .Cm package



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