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From: William McGonagle <wmcgonagle443@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:58:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proper overlay permissions
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I got it working! i had to add my repo directory to the safe.directory
variable in my global git config. I also made myself the owner, and
made the group portage. I hope your greens grow beautifully!
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:13=E2=80=AFPM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just added a overlay, regular one, plus I have one of my own. I added
> one right after my initial install, voyager. Keep in mind, I run emerge
> and such as root. It won't matter for me but if you plan to run emerge
> as a user, it will matter. This is what mine looks like.
>
>
> root@Gentoo-1 / # ls /var/db/repos/
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:38 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 177 portage portage 4096 Oct 26 01:11 gentoo
> drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 guru
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:37 localrepo
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:35 voyageur
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
>
>
> As you can see, the gentoo directory is portage:portage. However, my
> local overlay and two regular overlays are root:root. That is likely
> because I was root when I added them. The benefit of portage:portage is
> that you can add a user to the portage group and it should work
> permissions wise. If I added my user to the portage group and tried to
> run emerge, I'd likely get a permissions error with the settings above.
>
> Like I said, I'm no guru but if I'm wrong, odds are someone will chime
> in soon. Of course, you could just try it and see if it works. If not,
> change it back. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
> P. S. My garden is about to get rain. It's been at least a month since
> last one. My greens will be so happy. :-D
>
>
> William McGonagle wrote:
> > I appreciate the advice, I will try that. I just installed a few days
> > ago, and all my overlays are owned by root. I've seen a lot of
> > conflicting info on this, but I don't see how changing the permissions
> > like you said could cause any problems. Thanks again!
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:40=E2=80=AFAM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> >> William McGonagle wrote:
> >>> I want to develop a local overlay on my system, sync it with git, and
> >>> be able to sign my commits with gpg. How can i set the permissions of
> >>> my overlay so that I can do this as a regular user securely? Would it
> >>> be fine to just make me the owner of that directory?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm no expert at this but in the past, I set permissions this way.
> >> portage:portage and then add the user to the portage group. When you
> >> first install Gentoo, that is the default permissions, last I looked
> >> anyway. That should work.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-) :-)
> >>
> >
>
>