On 2021-05-06, Chris Zakelj wrote:
> I'm getting an odd error trying to extract these two tarballs from
> 6.9-RELEASE on a clean install. I'm probably missing something obvious
> but don't know what. Starting with
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html, I log in on the console, edit my
> non-root user, and create the directory structure:
>
> # user mod -G wsrc czakelj
> # cd /usr
> # mkdir -p xenocara ports
> # chgrp wsrc xenocara ports
> # chmod 775 xenocara ports
>
> So far, so good. Next I go to https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html, log
> in non-root via SSH, and begin extracting:
>
> arcbuild$ cd /usr/src
> arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/src.tar.gz
> arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/sys.tar.gz
> arcbuild$ cd /usr
> arcbuild$ tar xzf /home/czakelj/ports.tar.gz
> tar: Access/modification time set failed on: ports: Operation not permitted
>
> I also get that same error attempting to extract xenocara.tar.gz.
> Ideas/clues (other than "cheating" and using syspatch since I'm trying
> to learn stuff after all)? Thanks!
>
>
Your uid doesn't have access to write in /usr but does have access to
/usr/ports. Ignore it, the extraction should have worked ok. (I would not
bother with the tar though, and just use cvs to fetch the tree).
