Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone else out there has a similar setup to this and can
offer any hints on improving it:
- NFS-exported /usr/ports, permissions set so it's writable by anyone in
the 'ports' group.
- Mount this on various client machines where portupgrade will be run to
build ports and generate packages. The pkgtools.conf file is set up so
that packages will be written to /usr/ports/packages-pkg_branch,
e.g. packages-5-stable.
- I was hoping to be able to avoid root access to /usr/ports by using the
-s flag to portupgrade, but portupgrade seems to want to be root whenever
it invokes a make command on a port. I can move the actual build onto a
local filesystem by setting WRKDIRPREFIX - I did this anyway for
performance reasons. However, I want downloaded distfiles and built
packages to go in /usr/ports where other machines can see them, but there
doesn't seem to be a way to prevent portupgrade from fetching distfiles
or building packages as root in every situation.
The best workaround I've come up with is to maproot=some_user on the NFS
export, where some_user is a member of the 'ports' group. This _almost_
works, except when trying to overwrite a package that is owned by someone
else (the ports framework doesn't move/delete the old package first - but a
wrapper script around pkg_create fixes that) or if I run portupgrade on the
NFS server and end up with files owned by root that need to be fixed up
manually afterwards. I could use maproot=root, but /usr/ports shares a
filesystem with a bunch of other stuff, and I'd rather not have the whole
lot be remotely root-writable.
Is anyone else running a setup like this and found a better workaround for
these problems?
Thanks,
Scott
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