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On Monday, 13 January 2020 22:40:14 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:15:31 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > According to my emerge --info output I have sandbox, usersandbox and |
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> > userpriv, all set. The owner of my portage directory and all files |
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> > therein is root:root. Should the ownership be portage:portage? What |
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> > is the default? |
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> As it happens, I switched a machine from rsync to git syncing last night, |
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> so started with a new tree. Everything is root:root. That implies that |
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> portage does not drop permissions for the sync, otherwise it wouldn't be |
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> able to write to the tree. And ps confirms that with an rsync sync, rsync |
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> is running as root. |
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Thanks Neil, this this leaves me mildly confused as to what the gentoo-default |
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ownership of portage tree is/should be. Until I hear differently I'll leave |
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my old installations as portage:portage and the latest as root:root. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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