From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150313123344.55d5b12f@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150313104208.GA11261@waltdnes.org>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as
> long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p"
You don't need to be a member of the portage group to do that.
[fred@shooty ~ 0]% groups
users
[fred@shooty ~ 0]% emerge -p bash
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[binary R ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p33-r2
Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories
owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and
emerge --fetchonly.
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Neil Bothwick
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 9:08 [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not? German
2015-03-13 9:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-13 10:42 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-13 10:51 ` German
2015-03-13 12:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-13 12:33 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-03-13 21:49 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-13 22:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-14 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas K. Huettel
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