>From what I got, the new portage still cannot be launched from a non-root account, it compiles as portage:portage, but you still need to be root to emerge a package.
Jonathan --- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�: > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:22, Arturo di Gioia > wrote: > > Yesterday I updated portage to version 2.0.47-r2. > > It suggested me to add a 'portage' group to allow > non root build. > > Unfortunately it didn't give any more information. > I tried it (I > > created the portage group and added my user to > it). It doesn't work > > (portage still requires root privileges to fetch > and compile). I > > tried with no luck to search any information on > the forums and on > > portage and make.conf man pages. Does anyone have > any useful info > > about that topic? Thanks in advance. > > I'm not sure about this, but I think you have to > re-login to your > machine ... only then changes made to /etc/passwd > and/or /etc/group > will take effect. > > HTH, Matthias > > -- > Ooh, I'll never eat chili again ... Woohoo CHILI! > - Homer Simpson > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
