182786 – emerge --sync shouldn't require root privs

Bug 182786 - emerge --sync shouldn't require root privs

Summary: emerge --sync shouldn't require root privs

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	181949
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Reported:	2007-06-21 13:01 UTC by Christoph Mende (RETIRED)
Modified:	2007-06-29 02:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Christoph Mende (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-21 13:01:09 UTC

for those people using CVS checkouts which are probably owned by their user, running emerge --sync on that checkout will change the permissions to root:root

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-23 15:52:17 UTC

Reduced the check so that sync is allowed if you're a member of the portage group and have write access to $PORTDIR.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-06-29 02:54:45 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.3_rc6.