Matthew Gregan wrote:

At 2004-05-19T200505+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:


On Wednesday 19 May 2004 19:45, Nick Rout wrote:


True, but emerge is still going to compile the gentoo updates as root.


AFAIK it drops root privileges while compiling





It seems to be running as root doesn't it?





I agree it should be running as the portage user, but I don't think it is.



Have you set it up?

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030428-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8

Cheers,
-mjg


I notice (after setting up as above) that emerge still runs wget as root when fetching.
Anyone know if this can be changed too? I have been searching, but not having
much luck.



Col.

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