On 04/25/10 12:03, Eitan Adler wrote:
> When I run portmaster with --check-depends or --check-port-dbdir as a
> non-root user portmaster will continue to attempt to write to the db
> dir.
> For example
> ===>>> Checking jpeg-8_1
> ===>>> Updating +REQUIRED_BY
> install: /var/db/pkg/jpeg-8_1/+REQUIRED_BY: Permission denied
>
> portmaster should check before it goes through the whole process and
> see if it has write access to /var/db/ports.
I'm sort of ambivalent about this. For the most part I would imagine
that users would either anticipate this issue and run it as root or set
up PM_SU_CMD. OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like
this that require root access to actually change things as a regular
user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the
command as root.
This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think?
Doug
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