svn commit: r363268 - head/share/man/man7
Piotr Pawel Stefaniak
pstef at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 17 06:33:20 UTC 2020
Author: pstef
Date: Fri Jul 17 06:33:20 2020
New Revision: 363268
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363268
Log:
Promote use of unprivileged users for building ports by documenting SU_CMD.
Phrasing by Daniel O'Connor.
Reviewed by: 0mp
MFC after: 14 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25433
Modified:
head/share/man/man7/ports.7
Modified: head/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man7/ports.7 Fri Jul 17 02:53:41 2020 (r363267)
+++ head/share/man/man7/ports.7 Fri Jul 17 06:33:20 2020 (r363268)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 4, 2020
+.Dd July 17, 2020
.Dt PORTS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -437,6 +437,14 @@ Where to find/put distfiles, normally
.Pa distfiles/
in
.Va PORTSDIR .
+.It Va SU_CMD
+Command used to elevate privilege to configure and install a port.
+The unprivileged user must have write access to
+.Va WRKDIRPREFIX
+and
+.Va DISTDIR .
+The default is
+.Ql /usr/bin/su root -c
.It Va PACKAGES
Used only for the
.Cm package
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