From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 11 20:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C0A15259; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA05872; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:38:42 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19990412133835.55410@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:38:35 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: meshko@cs.brandeis.edu Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/11093: remind user that he needs to be root to install port References: <19990412032503.1B6DC153BE@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19990412032503.1B6DC153BE@hub.freebsd.org>; from meshko@cs.brandeis.edu on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:25:03PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:25:03PM -0700, meshko@cs.brandeis.edu wrote: > Well, may be the problem is with me (most likely) but still i think > somebody must have had the same problem... > I've been using ports collection for two years now (so I am not > total newbie) and I think it's great, but I always repeat the same > mistake -- I cd /usr/ports/whatever and try to make forgetting to su. > The problem is that make starts fine and connects to ftp site and starts > download when it finally notices that it can't create the local file! > First of all with slow connection it takes some time before I find out > that I screwed up. But what is even worth it actually took me some time > to figure out what does this permission denied message mean. I thought > that file is closed on the ftp server! (yes, yes, very dumb, thank you) > Well, anyway I guess it would be nice to have makefile check if user > have access to ports directory and report error clearly... > thanks for your time I can identify with your problem, but I think this is a documentation problem not a ports problem. What documentation did you read to learn how to install a port? Maybe we can fix it so that it's clearer in future. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message