I appreciate the advice, I will try that. I just installed a few days ago, and all my overlays are owned by root. I've seen a lot of conflicting info on this, but I don't see how changing the permissions like you said could cause any problems. Thanks again!
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:40 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > William McGonagle wrote: > > I want to develop a local overlay on my system, sync it with git, and > > be able to sign my commits with gpg. How can i set the permissions of > > my overlay so that I can do this as a regular user securely? Would it > > be fine to just make me the owner of that directory? > > > > > > > I'm no expert at this but in the past, I set permissions this way. > portage:portage and then add the user to the portage group. When you > first install Gentoo, that is the default permissions, last I looked > anyway. That should work. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
