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On 03/10/2015 10:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:48:06 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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>> Who is supposed to own /usr/portage? |
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> This was discussed in some detail two weeks ago. Search for the thread |
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> entitled "portage directory ownerships?". |
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There's an aspect of that we didn't discuss 2 weeks ago. |
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The answer to the OP's question is, as always, "it depends". |
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From man 5 make.conf, section "FEATURES": |
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userfetch |
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When portage is run as root, drop privileges to |
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portage:portage during the fetching of package |
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sources. |
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userpriv |
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Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile |
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packages as portage:portage without a sandbox |
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(unless usersandbox is also used). |
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usersandbox |
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Enable the sandbox in the compile phase, when run‐ |
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ning without root privs (userpriv). |
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usersync |
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Drop privileges to the owner of ${repository_loca‐ |
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tion} for emerge(1) --sync operations. Note that |
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this feature assumes that all subdirectories of |
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${repository_location} have the same ownership as |
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${repository_location} itself. It is the user's |
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responsibility to ensure correct ownership, since |
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otherwise Portage would have to waste time validat‐ |
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ing ownership for each and every sync operation. |
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So logically, if user* is in FEATURES then $PORTDIR should be |
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portage:portage |
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If emerge --sync is done as user alan, then all repos ($PORTDIR, local |
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overlays, layman overlays) need to be owned by alan: |
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if user* is not in FEATURES and everything gets run as root, then |
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PORTDIR, DISTDIR and so on can be root:root. |
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The point is, there really isn't a "owner:group /should/ be" rule for |
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portage data, the admin needs to make it whatever he needs it to be. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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