svn commit: r367253 - head/share/man/man7

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 1 17:27:49 UTC 2020


Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
Date: Sun Nov  1 17:27:48 2020
New Revision: 367253
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367253

Log:
  Document how to use sudo for SU_CMD
  
  It is rather common for the ports users to replace su(1) with sudo(8)
  within the SU_CMD variable. Let's document it in the manual page (so far
  it's been hidden in a comment within bsd.commands.mk).
  
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Modified:
  head/share/man/man7/ports.7

Modified: head/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man7/ports.7	Sun Nov  1 16:38:30 2020	(r367252)
+++ head/share/man/man7/ports.7	Sun Nov  1 17:27:48 2020	(r367253)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 3, 2020
+.Dd November 1, 2020
 .Dt PORTS 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -442,7 +442,10 @@ The unprivileged user must have write access to
 and
 .Va DISTDIR .
 The default is
-.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c
+.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c .
+Many users set it to
+.Ql /usr/local/bin/sudo -E sh -c
+for convenience.
 .It Va PACKAGES
 Used only for the
 .Cm package


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