565718 – Add usersync feature for repo.postsync.d hooks

Bug 565718 - Add usersync feature for repo.postsync.d hooks

Summary: Add usersync feature for repo.postsync.d hooks

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	240187
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Reported:	2015-11-13 21:35 UTC by Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)
Modified:	2023-12-14 08:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:	https://github.com/hasufell/portage-gentoo-git-config/issues/16 905441
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Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-11-13 21:35:44 UTC

FEATURES="usersync" drops privileges to the owner of ${repository_location}, however scripts in repo.postsync.d are still run as root, which leads to strange effects like metadata generated by egencache after the sync being owned by root and owner of the ${repository_location}.

Some discussion has already been taken place here:
<https://github.com/hasufell/portage-gentoo-git-config/issues/16>