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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