Bug 9306 – emerge-webrsync changes portage tree file ownership to 1105

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Jeff Kowing 2002-10-18 10:48:25 UTC]

app-admin/gentoolkit-0.1.17-r1

emerge-webrsync changes the user and group owners to 1105 for all files in the
/usr/portage tree.

[Comment 1 Jeff Kowing 2002-10-18 19:24:59 UTC]

Created attachment 4812 [details, diff]
patch for emerge-webrsync

This is a proposed no brainer patch that simply changes file ownership of the
downloaded portage tree snapshot to user and group root before rsyncing it to
the host's /usr/portage tree.

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-12-06 07:03:18 UTC]

what's so bad for temporary files and dirs if they are owned by any UID/GID ?

[Comment 3 Jeff Kowing 2002-12-06 09:49:42 UTC]

The only reason the patch changes the ownership of the temporary files is to
prevent the subsequent rsync from changing uid/gid of the /usr/portage/* files
to whatever the uid/gid of the person happened to be that made the latest
portage tree snapshot.

So, I guess the answer to your question is that I don't care about the ownership
of the temporary files but I do care about the ownership of the /usr/portage
files or am I misunderstanding something?  Shouldn't the /usr/portage/* files
and directories be owned by root?

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-12-06 13:09:42 UTC]

i'll do this asap

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-12-06 14:00:27 UTC]

in cvs.
gentoolkit-0.1.17-r5