On 2021-05-06, Chris Zakelj <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm getting an odd error trying to extract these two tarballs from > 6.9-RELEASE on a clean install. I'm probably missing something obvious > but don't know what. Starting with > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html, I log in on the console, edit my > non-root user, and create the directory structure: > > # user mod -G wsrc czakelj > # cd /usr > # mkdir -p xenocara ports > # chgrp wsrc xenocara ports > # chmod 775 xenocara ports > > So far, so good. Next I go to https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html, log > in non-root via SSH, and begin extracting: > > arcbuild$ cd /usr/src > arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/src.tar.gz > arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/sys.tar.gz > arcbuild$ cd /usr > arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/ports.tar.gz > tar: Access/modification time set failed on: ports: Operation not permitted > > I also get that same error attempting to extract xenocara.tar.gz. > Ideas/clues (other than "cheating" and using syspatch since I'm trying > to learn stuff after all)? Thanks! > >
Your uid doesn't have access to write in /usr but does have access to /usr/ports. Ignore it, the extraction should have worked ok. (I would not bother with the tar though, and just use cvs to fetch the tree).
