On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:25:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That got me thinking. Everywhere that portage operates or owns > > things, should the ownership not be portage.portage > > and what would the typical permissions be? > > Here, all of /etc/portage is root:root > The tree and all overlays are portage:portage
Just to add some confusion to the mix root@fenchurch: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 08:43 /var/portage root@hactar: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 07:55 /var/portage root@vroomfondel: drwxr-xr-x 168 root root 4096 Aug 25 08:03 /var/portage root@slartibartfast: drwxr-xr-x 1 portage portage 3378 Aug 25 08:05 /var/portage root@lunkwill: drwxr-xr-x 168 portage portage 4096 Aug 25 07:35 /var/portage root@quordlepleen: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 08:04 /var/portage So some are portage:portage, some are root:root - all use /var/portage for $PORTDIR so that's not an issue. One of the portage:portage ones is the one that syncs with the mirrors and acts as an rsync host for the others, this may or may not be significant. Downloading a portage snapshot shows it all to be owned by portage:portage, so I guess that's as close as we are going to get to a definitive answer. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from folks who didn't succeed either.
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