On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 06:40:17PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> I recommend you use cvs to fetch the ports tree.
>
> ports.tar.gz does not quite contain all the files because
> some have names which are too long for the format used
> by tar(1).
>
I have always used dump/restore to
On 2022-01-13, Rob Whitlock wrote:
> As another issue, extracting ports.tar.gz as a non-privileged user in /usr,
> as described in the document whose address is given above, results in
> failure due to lack of permission, as a normal user does not have access to
> create the /usr/ports directory.
It is just a warning, you can ignore it.
I am not going to change my processes to ship a tar file without "."
Rob Whitlock wrote:
> Attempting to extract xenocara.tar.gz while avoiding root proviliges as
> described here https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#wsrc, I ran into an
> error, shown
i think u need to do as root or configure doas to perform privleged
operation...
On Thu 13 Jan 2022, 17:26 Rob Whitlock, wrote:
> Attempting to extract xenocara.tar.gz while avoiding root proviliges as
> described here https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#wsrc, I ran into an
> error, shown
Attempting to extract xenocara.tar.gz while avoiding root proviliges as
described here https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#wsrc, I ran into an
error, shown below:
0 thinkpad$ pwd
/usr/xenocara
0 thinkpad$ ls -a
. ..
0 thinkpad$ tar xzf /home/rob/openbsd_files/7.0/xenocara.tar.gz
tar:
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