ports/122269: mail/fetchmail install as non-root user with SU_CMD fails
Stefan Sperling
stsp at stsp.name
Sun Mar 30 19:50:06 UTC 2008
>Number: 122269
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: mail/fetchmail install as non-root user with SU_CMD fails
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 30 19:50:05 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stefan Sperling
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ted.stsp.name 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #2: Sat Mar 29 23:54:21 CET 2008 stsp at ted.stsp.name:/usr/obj/home/stsp/src/freebsd-7.0/sys/TED i386
>Description:
When installing the mail/fetchmail port as a non-root user
with SU_CMD, the install fails because the port Makefile
executes the pkg-install script which needs root privileges
to succeed as a non-root user.
>How-To-Repeat:
Set SU_CMD in /etc/make.conf, for example:
SU_CMD=/usr/bin/su root -c
Try to install fetchmail.
This will happen:
===> Installing for fetchmail-6.3.8_4
===> fetchmail-6.3.8_4 depends on file: /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt - found
===> fetchmail-6.3.8_4 depends on shared library: intl - found
fetchmail:*:124:
You already have a group "fetchmail", so I will use it.
fetchmail:*:124:124::0:0:Fetchmail mail-retrieval daemon:/var/run/fetchmail:/usr
/sbin/nologin
You already have a user "fetchmail", so I will use it.
install: mkdir /var/run/fetchmail: Permission denied
*** Error code 71
Stop in /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail.
>Fix:
The port should acquire root privileges before executing
the pkg-install script. The patch below fixes the issue for me.
Index: mail/fetchmail/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/ncvs/ports/mail/fetchmail/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.191
diff -u -r1.191 Makefile
--- mail/fetchmail/Makefile 4 Oct 2007 01:49:27 -0000 1.191
+++ mail/fetchmail/Makefile 30 Mar 2008 19:38:46 -0000
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
@${ECHO_CMD} ""
-pre-install:
+pre-su-install:
@${SETENV} ${SCRIPTS_ENV} PKG_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" ${SH} ${PKGINSTALL} ${PKGNAME} PRE-INSTALL
post-install:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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