[gentoo-dev] emerge suggestions

[gentoo-dev] emerge suggestions

[Jerry A!]

Can we change the behavior of "emerge rsync" to not preserve perms?
Right now when I rsync, I get files and directories that are 777, 2777,
etc.  I don't think that people expect to update their portage tree and
have the entire thing be a security nightmare.  8(

I know that the more correct solution would be to ensure that the perms
are correct on the rsync server.  However, since those seem to be victim
to chmod-rot, I think we should make sure that at least the client-side
behaves as expected...

Also, any chance of having it ignore something like /usr/portage/local?
That way people using rsync could make out of tree changes and not have
them blown away each time they update their tree.

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@thehutt.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge suggestions

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:02:09PM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
> Can we change the behavior of "emerge rsync" to not preserve perms?
> Right now when I rsync, I get files and directories that are 777, 2777,
> etc.  I don't think that people expect to update their portage tree and
> have the entire thing be a security nightmare.  8(
> 
> I know that the more correct solution would be to ensure that the perms
> are correct on the rsync server.  However, since those seem to be victim
> to chmod-rot, I think we should make sure that at least the client-side
> behaves as expected...
> 
> Also, any chance of having it ignore something like /usr/portage/local?
> That way people using rsync could make out of tree changes and not have
> them blown away each time they update their tree.

Try remerging portage and still see if you get the 777 problem.  Also, type
"umask" and see if root has a umask set.  If not, add one to /etc/profiles
(fixed on CVS).

As for LOCAL_PORTDIR support, it'll be added soon.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

[gentoo-dev] emerge suggestions

[Philippe Trottier]

Hello,

          --time option would be nice as it could give a reference to 
how much time does it take for each packages
        
       put all the reports at the end of the long ebuilds, and put all 
the times there...

Phil

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