On 04/30 16:19, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > Not enought information. Did you check those permissions too?
> yes, i checked it... they are rwxr-xr-x. well, i think i see the problem
> now... the whole tree is owned by root... so i have to either chown all
> directories there to belong to another user, or change permissions to
> rwxrwxr-x everywhere. the first solution doesn't seem to be ok...
> the permissions and owner are set during the unpacking of the pkgsrc tree to
> /usr. it shouldn't be writable for ordinary user, so pkgsrc should be
> unpacked by root and permissions are defined by umask, right? and to have
> umask 002 for root, it isn't good idea...
> so what's the correct solution?

I believe that the pkgsrc tarballs contain files with a group of wsrc
and they're group writable. So just add yourself to the wsrc group. Also
ignore my previous message, I don't know what I was thinking. I meant
chmod -R g+w /usr/pkgsrc, not 775.