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