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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Private SVN repository for live-ebuild
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:55:39
Message-Id: 4D41CD9E.2000805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Private SVN repository for live-ebuild by Matthew Summers
1 On 01/27/2011 11:08 AM, Matthew Summers wrote:
2 > One question though. Since the 'portage' user has its $home set by default
3 > to /var/tmp/portage how would you recommend handling the ssh key situation
4 > since that directory is somewhat special?
5
6 Well, I've never tried it, so I don't have any recommendation atm other
7 than to make sure FEATURES=userpriv is not enabled.
8
9 Moving forward, maybe it would make sense to have a notion of a
10 configurable "fetcher home" that package managers and live/vcs eclasses
11 would use for the HOME variable only when fetching. For example, the
12 user could configure this by setting a FETCHER_HOME variable.
13 --
14 Thanks,
15 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Private SVN repository for live-ebuild Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>