ports@, I had discovered that proot can't checkout ports from cvs when its PORT_USER not root. It fauls as:
cvs: cannot open /root/.cvsrc: Permission denied system(/usr/bin/cvs, -z3, -d, /home/cvs, co, -P, -A, ports) failed: exit(1) the used config: PORT_USER=catap chroot=/build/current snapshot=http://openbsd.as250.net/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64 portscvs=/home/cvs chown_all=1 actions=snapshot unpopulate checkout_ports chown_all ports_subdirs check_symlinks devs here the diff which helps me. Ok? Index: infrastructure/bin/proot =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/infrastructure/bin/proot,v diff -u -p -r1.75 proot --- infrastructure/bin/proot 3 Aug 2024 15:24:34 -0000 1.75 +++ infrastructure/bin/proot 27 Aug 2025 18:51:36 -0000 @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ sub checkout_ports($state) { $state->banner("Checking out ports tree", sub { - my @cvs = ("/usr/bin/cvs", "-z3", "-d", $state->{portscvs}); + my @cvs = ("/usr/bin/cvs", "-f", "-z3", "-d", $state->{portscvs}); my $dir = $state->chroot($state->{PORTSDIR}); if (-d "$dir/CVS") { $state->{portuser}->run_as(sub {
