On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:37:42PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > We could: > > - leave out the -p option to tar for the pkgsrc set (i.e. make all of > pkgsrc owned by root) and display a message to chown it after reboot to > the wanted user > > - create a user account (or select an existing one) and run the extraction > as that user (or chown afterwards) > > - only display a message post extraction and leave everything else as is > > - change the process the pkgsrc sets are created and make root own > everything, > like it is done for the src/xsrc sets > > I'd tend to favouring option 4, for consistency with the (other) source sets -- the same reasons why people would want to chown /usr/pkgsrc equally apply to /usr/src and friends, therefore IMHO either they should be treated the same way. Of course, conversely that could also mean that /all/ the source sets might be treated as proposed in the first three options, but I think going for the 4th would be quite okay. (On a freshly installed system, it's reasonable to expect most stuff being owned by root.)
Timo
