On Oct 17, 2013, at 23:45, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> Surely the macports user needs write permission to change things when
>> running "sudo port sync"?
>
> Is there a particular reason you need to run "sudo port sync"? I just run
> "port
On 2013-10-18 12:53 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> This has become increasingly difficult ever since the gsoc08-privileges
> branch was merged in and basically made non-root MacPorts installations
> unusable.
What problem(s) are you seeing with non-root installations? Have you
filed tickets?
I don'
On 2013-10-18 03:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Oct 17, 2013, at 07:34, Clemens Lang wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:18:51PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> If my main dports tree is a Subversion working copy, what are
>>> the recommended permissions and user and group ownership so that
>>
I am aware (and so should you be), that these files are editable by my
user account and contain code that will be run with super user
privileges – so if you're concerned about possible privilege
escalations, you should create the checkout as root (which also implies
you need root privileges to e
