On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:25:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > That got me thinking. Everywhere that portage operates or owns
> > things, should the ownership not be portage.portage
> > and what would the typical permissions be?  
> 
> Here, all of /etc/portage is root:root
> The tree and all overlays are portage:portage

Just to add some confusion to the mix

root@fenchurch: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 08:43 /var/portage
root@hactar: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 07:55 /var/portage
root@vroomfondel: drwxr-xr-x 168 root root 4096 Aug 25 08:03 /var/portage
root@slartibartfast: drwxr-xr-x 1 portage portage 3378 Aug 25 08:05 /var/portage
root@lunkwill: drwxr-xr-x 168 portage portage 4096 Aug 25 07:35 /var/portage
root@quordlepleen: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3378 Aug 25 08:04 /var/portage

So some are portage:portage, some are root:root - all use /var/portage
for $PORTDIR so that's not an issue. One of the portage:portage ones is
the one that syncs with the mirrors and acts as an rsync host for the
others, this may or may not be significant.

Downloading a portage snapshot shows it all to be owned by
portage:portage, so I guess that's as close as we are going to get to a
definitive answer.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from
folks who didn't succeed either.