On 2016-Dec-15 09:43:51 +0100, Mathieu Arnold <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: >Le 14/12/2016 à 06:17, Peter Jeremy a écrit : >> On 2016-Dec-13 21:32:36 +0100, "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com> wrote: >>> IMO No port should need root for >>> cd /usr/ports; make -i fetch >> In a stock FreeBSD install, all ports require root to both fetch and build. >> You have customised your system in a non-standard way so you are getting >> non-standard behaviour which doesn't match you expectations. > >That is plain not true.
By default, /usr/ports/distfiles is mode 0775 root:wheel and the only member of wheel is root. Fetching a port requires writing to /usr/ports/distfiles, hence root is the only user that can fetch distfiles. Likewise, by default, ports are built it /usr/ports/CATEGORY/NAME/work. /usr/ports/CATEGORY/NAME is only writable by root so only root can create the work directory in which to build ports. If you change the above defaults (which I suspect most people do) then you are correct that only a handful of ports need root to fetch or build (and I think that is still too many) - but I explicitly specified "stock install". -- Peter Jeremy
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