Q: why chown $LFS/sources?

[Jeremy Henty]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:18:59PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missimg  something but I don't see why  we need to chown
> > $LFS/sources.  It's already world-writable (and sticky) so there's
> > no problem with the lfs  user unpacking stuff there.  What will go
> > wrong if do chapter 5 with $LFS/sources owned by root?
> 
> If another user adds a file  or expands a tarball, then the lfs user
> can't delete  them because  of the sticky  bit.  It could  be worked
> around, but its just smoother if the lfs user owns everything.

Good  point.   In that  case  I  suggest  adding "chown  -R  root:root
$LFS/sources" to the end of chapter 5 to ensure that everything in the
chroot is owned by a valid user in the chroot.  Worth a ticket?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty