Subject: Re: (non)install packages as root?
To: Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/30/2003 07:15:47
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lubos Vrbka wrote:

> do su, but if i do make / make install in any of the pkgsrc
> subdirectories, i get
> => Can't download to /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/ (permission denied?).

> after changing permissions to rwxrwxr-x it downloads the package, but
> => Checksum OK for xmahjongg.tar.gz.
> mkdir: /usr/pkgsrc/games/xmahjongg/work: Permission denied

> so it doesn't work - what i'm doing bad?

Not enought information. Did you check those permissions too?

Is your pkgsrc on NFS?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/