2025-11-09T13:32:18Z Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]>:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:39:27 +0100,
Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi list,
I followed the instructions here:
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html#PortsConfig
The part under "Configuration of the Ports System" where it explains
how
to build as a common user. The text states:
"Again, ports can be built as a user, but must be installed by root
or
with doas(1)."
But after editing /etc/mk.conf and changing username and group of
those
directories (including /usr/ports) when I run "make" as a common user
I
get this:
pkg_add: pkg_add must be run as root
What am I missing?
Probably you need
PORTS_PRIVSEP=yes
SUDO=doas
I added those variables to /etc/mk.conf. Now it has:
PORTS_PRIVSEP=yes
SUDO=doas
WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports
DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles
PACKAGE_REPOSITORY=/usr/packages
I changed user:group of those directories to my user and group, then I
untared pots.tar.gz to /usr/ports and recursevely changed user:group
there too. I also added the following entries to /etc/doas.conf (as
documented in bsd.port.mk(5)):
permit keepenv nopass <my_user> as _pbuild
permit keepenv nopass <my_user> as _pfetch
But I still get:
$ make
mkdir /usr/obj/ports: Permission denied at
/usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/portlock line 52.
*** Error 255 in /usr/ports/graphics/libplacebo
(/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2710 'clean':
@lock=libplacebo-7.351.0; export _L...)
I don't know what else to do. :-(
WRKOBJDIR and PACKAGE_REPOSITORY need to be writable by the _pbuild user
and DISTDIR by the _pfetch user. I usually leave those directories in
their default locations (i.e. don't set them in mk.conf) and run the
following:
# install -d -o _pfetch -g _pfetch /usr/ports/distfiles
# install -d -o _pbuild -g _pbuild /usr/ports/{packages,plist,pobj,bulk}
Or if they exist already:
# chown -R _pfetch:_pfetch /usr/ports/distfiles
# chown -R _pbuild:_pbuild /usr/ports/{packages,plist,pobj,bulk}
You can tweak those commands to match the locations specified in your
mk.conf.
