The following reply was made to PR misc/178284; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brooks Davis <[email protected]> To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: misc/178284: make installworld doesn't detect UID correctly and fails due to not having enough permissions Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:03:27 -0500 On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 06:51:59PM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > >Description: > make installworld will fail if you do it as non-root user. > > I think "make installworld" should warn user about running with non-root > UID, and maybe ask for a "Press Y to continue", and should let me install > the world correctly, without failing on "permission denied". > > In the perfect case, such installation would create a script e.g.: perms.sh > in $DESTDIR/, so that once booted, I could just do sh /perms.sh and have > everything be fixed. Other than not being automatic, the NO_ROOT option introduced in HEAD in January will accomplish all of this (you set permissions with mtree instead of a script, but that's just a detail). I hope to merge it to 9 in the next week. Virtually all the supporting commits are now complete. -- Brooks _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
