following up on this, i made a patch for the ports(7) page to include the fact
of the user needing to be in wsrc, to avoid future confusions (after all, i
did RTFM!)
the quote below from ports(7) in my original message:
install, and so on all the way to fetch. In typical use, one will only
run install explicitly (as normal user, with SUDO defined in
/etc/mk.conf), or build (as user), then install (as root).
now looks like this:
install, and so on all the way to fetch. In typical use, one will run
install explicitly (as normal user, in group wsrc, with SUDO defined in
/etc/mk.conf), or build (as user), then install (as root).
with wsrc highlighted like /etc/mk.conf.
patch below.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:37:04 -0400 [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:14:45 +0200 Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 04:59:42AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > > this probably would have been noticed anyway, unless there is something
> > > very
> > > strange on my system, and i did everything by the book (manual).
> > >
> > > ports(7) leads me to believe this should work, particularly /etc/mk.conf
> > >
> > > In the following list, each target will run the preceding targets in
> > > order automatically. That is, build will be run (if necessary) by
> > > install, and so on all the way to fetch. In typical use, one will
> > > only
> > > run install explicitly (as normal user, with SUDO defined in
> > > /etc/mk.conf), or build (as user), then install (as root).
> > >
> > > if SUDO is unset, or set but not exported, 'make' works, 'make install'
> > > fails.
> > > if SUDO is exported, or set in mk.conf, 'make' fails, but 'make install'
> > > works.
> > > running everything as root breaks other things (see end), though that is
> > > probably intended.
> > >
> > > everything has to be installed manually, which is a PITA for most ports,
> > > or
> > > run as root, which has its obvious problems, and still breaks on some
> > > things
> > > (groff). as it is i cannot chain build dependences (except as root,
> > > mostly).
> >
> > Make sure you are in the wsrc group.
> > Or you can set 'SUDO=sudo -E' in mk.conf instead.
>
> thanks, this was it. my /etc/sudoers was fine (clean install from -current),
> but i was not in the wsrc group.
>
> there is no mention of wsrc in the ports(7) page however, so that may need
> updating.
>
--- ports.7 Mon Sep 8 02:45:35 2014
+++ ports.7.new Tue Oct 14 02:29:30 2014
@@ -228,9 +228,11 @@ by
.Ar install ,
and so on all the way to
.Ar fetch .
-In typical use, one will only run
+In typical use, one will run
.Ar install
-explicitly (as normal user, with
+explicitly (as normal user, in group
+.Pa wsrc ,
+with
.Ev SUDO
defined in
.Pa /etc/mk.conf ) ,
