On 12 Jan 2018, at 14:43, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> I installed macports as non-root and built coreutils and noticed that it >> does as root. > What do you mean? What specifically did you notice?
Non-root macports installed coreutils setting root:wheel for all files of the port. I remember configure phase said something like user 'test' doesn't exist, so it'll install as root, and it did so. I subsequently tried to reproduce this from scratch, i.e., reinstalling macports as non-root and then coreutils, but I couldn't. This time it installed as the non-root user 'test'. I've found the error in a search, albeit relating to mock and apache, but without clues as to why this showed without being reproducible in my case. warning: user test does not exist - using root
