svn commit: r367707 - stable/12/share/man/man7
Mateusz Piotrowski
0mp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 15 12:28:58 UTC 2020
Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
Date: Sun Nov 15 12:28:57 2020
New Revision: 367707
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367707
Log:
MFC r367253:
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).
Modified:
stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7
Directory Properties:
stable/12/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7 Sun Nov 15 11:56:16 2020 (r367706)
+++ stable/12/share/man/man7/ports.7 Sun Nov 15 12:28:57 2020 (r367707)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 17, 2020
+.Dd November 1, 2020
.Dt PORTS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -390,7 +390,10 @@ 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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