On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:14, Jonathan Chocron wrote:
> >From what I got, the new portage still cannot be
> launched from a non-root account, it compiles as
> portage:portage, but you still need to be root to
> emerge a package.
>
Good. I knew it shouldn't be possible to install something without
>From what I got, the new portage still cannot be
launched from a non-root account, it compiles as
portage:portage, but you still need to be root to
emerge a package.
Jonathan
--- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a
écrit : > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:22, Arturo
di Gioia
> wr
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:22, Arturo di Gioia wrote:
> Yesterday I updated portage to version 2.0.47-r2.
> It suggested me to add a 'portage' group to allow non root build.
> Unfortunately it didn't give any more information. I tried it (I
> created the portage group and added my user to it)
hi !
have you played with userpriv and usersandbox features in make.conf?
part of portage-2.0.47-r2.ebuild:
The 2.0.47 line of portages contains an optional userpriv mode that
enables portage to drop root privleges and run as a normal user. It is
enabled via FEATURES by adding userpriv.
ciao
Joe
Yesterday I updated portage to version 2.0.47-r2.
It suggested me to add a 'portage' group to allow non root build.
Unfortunately it didn't give any more information. I tried it (I created
the portage group and added my user to it). It doesn't work (portage
still requires root privileges to fetch a
