Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage
On 03/10/2015 10:26, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:48:06 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>
>> Who is supposed to own /usr/portage?
>
> This was discussed in some detail two weeks ago. Search for the thread
> entitled "portage directory ownerships?".
>
>
There's an aspect of that we didn't discuss 2 weeks ago.
The answer to the OP's question is, as always, "it depends".
>From man 5 make.conf, section "FEATURES":
userfetch
When portage is run as root, drop privileges to
portage:portage during the fetching of package
sources.
userpriv
Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile
packages as portage:portage without a sandbox
(unless usersandbox is also used).
usersandbox
Enable the sandbox in the compile phase, when run‐
ning without root privs (userpriv).
usersync
Drop privileges to the owner of ${repository_loca‐
tion} for emerge(1) --sync operations. Note that
this feature assumes that all subdirectories of
${repository_location} have the same ownership as
${repository_location} itself. It is the user's
responsibility to ensure correct ownership, since
otherwise Portage would have to waste time validat‐
ing ownership for each and every sync operation.
So logically, if user* is in FEATURES then $PORTDIR should be
portage:portage
If emerge --sync is done as user alan, then all repos ($PORTDIR, local
overlays, layman overlays) need to be owned by alan:
if user* is not in FEATURES and everything gets run as root, then
PORTDIR, DISTDIR and so on can be root:root.
The point is, there really isn't a "owner:group /should/ be" rule for
portage data, the admin needs to make it whatever he needs it to be.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:40:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 10:26, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 20:48:06 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> >
> >> Who is supposed to own /usr/portage?
> >
> > This was discussed in some detail two weeks ago. Search for the thread
> > entitled "portage directory ownerships?".
> >
> >
>
>
> There's an aspect of that we didn't discuss 2 weeks ago.
>
> The answer to the OP's question is, as always, "it depends".
> From man 5 make.conf, section "FEATURES":
>
> userfetch
> When portage is run as root, drop privileges to
> portage:portage during the fetching of package
> sources.
>
> userpriv
> Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile
> packages as portage:portage without a sandbox
> (unless usersandbox is also used).
>
> usersandbox
> Enable the sandbox in the compile phase, when run‐
> ning without root privs (userpriv).
>
> usersync
> Drop privileges to the owner of ${repository_loca‐
> tion} for emerge(1) --sync operations. Note that
> this feature assumes that all subdirectories of
> ${repository_location} have the same ownership as
> ${repository_location} itself. It is the user's
> responsibility to ensure correct ownership, since
> otherwise Portage would have to waste time validat‐
> ing ownership for each and every sync operation.
>
>
> So logically, if user* is in FEATURES then $PORTDIR should be
> portage:portage
> If emerge --sync is done as user alan, then all repos ($PORTDIR, local
> overlays, layman overlays) need to be owned by alan:
>
> if user* is not in FEATURES and everything gets run as root, then
> PORTDIR, DISTDIR and so on can be root:root.
That's interesting, but I think only the last one applies to $POSTDIR.
userfetch applies to $DISTDIR, which may or may not be within $PORTDIR
while the others relate to compiling so should only affect transient
directories in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR.
> The point is, there really isn't a "owner:group /should/ be" rule for
> portage data, the admin needs to make it whatever he needs it to be.
The default though is for all four of those features to be set, so
you would expect $PORTDIR to be portage:portage, yet on this recent
install it is root:root. The local portage mirror it syncs from is
portage:portage.
I'm beginning to think portage is female and all attempts to understand it
are futile...
--
Neil Bothwick
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him
to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm beginning to think portage is female and all attempts to > understand it are futile... You to huh? Every time I think I got something figured out, it throws a curve ball at me and hits me in the forehead. I don't like eating dirt. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage
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[gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage
Who is supposed to own /usr/portage?
