On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 09:11:01AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012/05/05 18:23, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 06:16:59PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > > > For building ports you're supposed to use > > > > SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo -E > > > > in /etc/mk.conf > > > > > > > > I guess the documentation should be made aware of that... Is using -E > > > > helping in your case? > > > > > > Interesting. > > > > > > Indeed it does fix my problem. But that seems like a hack because > > > sudoers lists all these "unnecessary" ports variables. > > > > Yes because at first people tried to add missing variables but it became > > unmaintainable in the long run because there are just too many with some > > being removed/added. > > I haven't tested yet but I think tobiasu's diff may fix it so we don't need > to list all the vars in sudoers or use sudo -E any more. If it's not enough > then > it should just be a case of looking for more sudo calls and changing them the > same way i.e. usng env(1) to get the vars past sudo.
If that works, I'm all for it and removing the insane amount of ports related env_keep in sudoers(5). -- Antoine
