Re: Portsnap serving up bad snapshots?

2007-09-20 Thread Marcus Reid
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0700, Marcus Reid wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried this on a couple of different machines a few times over > the last couple of days, and keep getting the same results. Starting > with an empty /var/db/portsnap : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Portsnap serving up bad snapshots?

2007-09-19 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I've tried this on a couple of different machines a few times over the last couple of days, and keep getting the same results. Starting with an empty /var/db/portsnap : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db]# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching publi

Re: ports system and umask

2007-09-04 Thread Marcus Reid
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:49:51PM +0200, mato wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >martinko wrote: > >> > >>We have similar problems here -- default umask is set to 027 and > >>therefore one needs to always remember changing it to 022 prior > >>installing any ports or packages. > >>Been bitten many

ports system and umask

2007-08-29 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I had my umask set to 007 and installed some ports, and it broke a lot of things. Some ports seem to install files with correct permissions, while others install files with the default umask. Worse, one port even changed the perms on /usr/local/lib to 770, which made my system unusable until