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On 2020-01-14 00:16, Mick wrote: |
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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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It sounds to me like the repository is broken - having ownership as root |
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seems to be slightly more entropy than portage and could have happened |
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as a unintended consequence of some uncarefully completed operation. |
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Is this the proper list to be on? |
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