portmanager core dumps

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> On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:30, Robert Marella wrote:
>> Good Afternoon
>>
>> At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try
>> to run "portupgrade -s | grep OLD" from a regular user account instead
>> of "sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD".
> 
> do you mean "portmanager -s | grep OLD" by any chance?
>>
>> I would expect portupgrade to insult my intelligence and question my
>> heritage .... or is that question my intelligence and insult my
>> heritage. Well, it doesn't do either. It core dumps. This will happen
>> on more than one system running 6 Stable and the updated portmanager.
>>
>> [robert at frankie] ~> pkg_info | grep portmanager
>> portmanager-0.4.1_4 FreeBSD installed ports status and safe update
>> utility
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robert
> 
> Portmanager will only run as root, I'll make a note/bug to check error 
> handling when someone attempts to run it as a normal user.

Mike,

Please don't disable the ability to run this as a non-root user.  I've 
managed to get it to run by chowning it's config, files under /var/db 
and the entire ports collection to an update user.  Now I can run 
portmanager -s and it will give me an accurate run-down of what upgrades 
are needed.  I can also then download updates as a restricted user. 
Changing to root will allow me to update as I need to, and as long as 
the src is cleaned up, no files owned by root are left behind in the 
ports tree.  This actually works quite nicely.

Thanks,
Frank