Re: problems with portupgrade under non-root user

Julian C. Dunn wrote:
I want to set up a FreeBSD system so that all portupgrades are done by a
"portbld" user, which has restricted 'sudo' rights to execute only
portupgrade-related commands. To that end, I did the following:

$ sudo chown -R portbld:portbld /usr/ports
$ sudo chown -R portbld:portbld /var/db/sup/ports-all
$ cd /usr/ports && sudo -u portbld make update
(cvsup runs)
(add 'portbld' to sudoers with NOPASSWD: ALL for now)
$ sudo -u portbld portupgrade -s dovecot

You need root at least for port install.


Unfortunately this last step doesn't work: ruby dumps core:

Making all in doc
cat dovecot-config.in|sed "s|moduledir=|moduledir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot|"
dovecot-config
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! mail/dovecot (dovecot-1.0.r22) (Permission denied)
---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25) [i386-freebsd6]

Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

/var/db/pkg and var/db/ports must be writable for the user too.

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Dixi.
Sem.
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