On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:29:17 +0200 Landry Breuil <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 05:09:36AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:35:40 +0200 Landry Breuil <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:34:54AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > > with SUDO set in /etc/mk.conf: > > > > if make release is run as root it will not proceed. > > > > if run as a regular user it gets further, but fails on permissions. > > > > > > > > without SUDO in /etc/mk.conf (and i presume the environment) it works > > > > fine. > > > > > > > > is there any way around this allowing /etc/mk.conf (which is useful for > > > > ports)? > > > > i can always move it temporarily, add it to my automated scripts, but > > > > is there > > > > a better way? > > > > > > > > > > > > $ cat /etc/mk.conf > > > > SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo > > > > > > I think (and this is probably somewhere in the docs) you should use sudo > > > -E. > > > without it (and if you're not in wsrc) DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR are > > > removed. check the default sudoers, and sudo manpage for details. > > > > > > Landry. > > > > > > > if you are talking about this: > > > > $ sudo env DESTDIR=/usr/dst RELEASEDIR=/usr/release make release > > exec /usr/bin/sudo make distribution-etc-root-var > > setenv DESTDIR before doing that! > > *** Error 1 in /usr/src/etc (Makefile:77 'distribution-etc-root-var': > > @false) > > *** Error 1 in /usr/src/etc (Makefile:228 'distribution') > > > > that is the reason for this error, since root is not in group wsrc, and sudo > > is getting invoked twice, once by me and then again by make. > > You're mixing stuff here. IF the user doing sudo is in wsrc, DESTDIR and > RELEASEDIR should be passed through to the underlying process. and you > shouldnt need two sudo invocations. > > export DESTDIR=/usr/dst > export RELEASEDIR=/usr/release > $make release (as user > > iirc, if you're in wsrc and use the default sudoers that's supposed to work. > > (btw, i never build releases, so i might be wrong) > > Landry >
well, the first invocation is being done by me, and i am in wsrc, so they do get passed on to make. however, that make is being run as root, who is not in wsrc, and SUDO is being invoked again, presumably without those variables. i could be wrong too, though.
