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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:21:38 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20150313222124.5faa2928@digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not? by Nikos Chantziaras |
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| 1 | On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:49:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > > Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories |
| 4 | > > owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and |
| 5 | > > emerge --fetchonly. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > You can do fetchonly, but sync is not possible. You need root for that. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | You're right, $PORTDIR itself is not group-writeable |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Okay, I pulled the pin. Now what? Hey, where are you going? |