On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:35:34PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > over the past few weeks I've been using the ports system without any > ports-mgmt tool and have become utterly convinced that the PACKAGE_SEQ > needs to be PACKAGE_SUSEQ for all but package-message. > The primary reason is that the install target can install hierarchies or > files not readable by the unprivileged user and as such the package > target will fail. > > I'm not aware of any downsides to making this change in bpm or am I > overlooking something? > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
I think the real thing to do there, is to work on the stagedir support so that everything but packaging/syncing can be done as a user and only syncing/packaging would need root privilege. If someone is willing to work on that please contact me, I have some preliminary work on this and I can share it. regards, Bapt
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