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Re: install/48365: sysinst installs /usr/pkgsrc with invalid ownership and group
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:37:42PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> We could:
>
> - leave out the -p option to tar for the pkgsrc set (i.e. make all of
> pkgsrc owned by root) and display a message to chown it after reboot to
> the wanted user
>
> - create a user account (or select an existing one) and run the extraction
> as that user (or chown afterwards)
>
> - only display a message post extraction and leave everything else as is
>
> - change the process the pkgsrc sets are created and make root own
> everything,
> like it is done for the src/xsrc sets
>
>
I'd tend to favouring option 4, for consistency with the (other) source sets --
the same reasons why people would want to chown /usr/pkgsrc equally apply to
/usr/src and friends, therefore IMHO either they should be treated the same way.
Of course, conversely that could also mean that /all/ the source sets might be
treated as proposed in the first three options, but I think going for the 4th
would be quite okay. (On a freshly installed system, it's reasonable to expect
most stuff being owned by root.)
Timo
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