On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 07:47:59AM +0800, harold felton wrote: > Hello, > > I am unsure whether this has already been addressed. > the documentation at faq5 and release.8 are slightly > outdated. For a non-root user, there should be another > step besides only adding them to the wsrc-group.
This is one way that you can avoid running cvs as root. > Typically, this non-root user is already in group-wheel. > The instructions currently mention that they should be > in group-wsrc, but they should also be in group-wobj. This is not needed for 'make build' or 'make release', therefore I chose not to mention it in the "building from source" section of faq5. I did mention why that might be a useful thing to do here: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Miscellanea and also on upgrade61.html. > The relevant command is simply: > > # *user mod -G wobj exampleuser* > > as seen at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld > which then references release.8 step-2. > > I do not know where/how to check for documentation > that might be changing under -current. The faq is updated within about half an hour after a commit is made. For -current manuals, you can use http://man.openbsd.org > Sincerely, hfelton > > ps - I have followed the mailing-lists for awhile and > would reference the following researched items: > message to source-changes from 20170412 id: > aca921a291cf2...@openbsd.org This is when I added https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Miscellanea mentioned above. > similar, but unrelated-bug from 20170116 at: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=148459605014161&w=2 This was fixed a week or two after that conversation: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/mk/bsd.obj.mk#rev1.17
