I got it working! i had to add my repo directory to the safe.directory variable in my global git config. I also made myself the owner, and made the group portage. I hope your greens grow beautifully!
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:13 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just added a overlay, regular one, plus I have one of my own. I added > one right after my initial install, voyager. Keep in mind, I run emerge > and such as root. It won't matter for me but if you plan to run emerge > as a user, it will matter. This is what mine looks like. > > > root@Gentoo-1 / # ls /var/db/repos/ > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 . > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:38 .. > drwxr-xr-x 177 portage portage 4096 Oct 26 01:11 gentoo > drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 guru > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:37 localrepo > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:35 voyageur > root@Gentoo-1 / # > > > As you can see, the gentoo directory is portage:portage. However, my > local overlay and two regular overlays are root:root. That is likely > because I was root when I added them. The benefit of portage:portage is > that you can add a user to the portage group and it should work > permissions wise. If I added my user to the portage group and tried to > run emerge, I'd likely get a permissions error with the settings above. > > Like I said, I'm no guru but if I'm wrong, odds are someone will chime > in soon. Of course, you could just try it and see if it works. If not, > change it back. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. My garden is about to get rain. It's been at least a month since > last one. My greens will be so happy. :-D > > > William McGonagle wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > > > >
