From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE57138CE3 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D158DE0CFC; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BFAE0B79 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:58:01 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LKu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEATocKAsLIRMSDwUlN4gLBsEtjQ8QQoJIYQOIYYUdiA6FfohwgV6DFYFR X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+LKu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEATocKAsLIRMSDwUlN4gLBsEtjQ8QQoJIYQOIYYUdiA6FfohwgV6DFYFR X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="47244598" Received: from 206-248-178-174.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.178.174]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2014 18:57:59 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:57:55 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:57:55 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem Message-ID: <20140210235755.GA19782@waltdnes.org> References: <197AEEF5-2BA3-43BF-944E-A5C4230D4CFB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20140210190344.GB17128@waltdnes.org> <52F92894.2050809@gmail.com> <52F95C7A.6010903@fastmail.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52F95C7A.6010903@fastmail.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ab25c878-8ead-4038-b418-6f1c97ba4e89 X-Archives-Hash: cb60879741002347b37a14086c091456 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10:50PM +0000, Kerin Millar wrote > As mentioned in a few other posts, recent snapshots are portage:portage > throughout so it's a done deal for new installations. How "recent"? Looking back into ~/Maildir/spam/cur/ I see that the email file suffix changed from ".d531:2,S" to ".i660:2,S" on May 14th, 2013 (i.e. the current machine "i660" was installed and pulling mail as of that date). > Those who still have it owned by root can benefit from usersync > simply by running: > > # chown -R portage:portage "$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)" > > There is no subsequent requirement not to invoke emerge --sync as root. What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for the emerge update process? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications