Bug 197805

Summary:	ports-mgmt/portmaster: Special handling of sudo
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Xin LI <delphij>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Stefan Eßer <se>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	se, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority:	---	Keywords:	feature, needs-patch, needs-qa
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Xin LI freebsd_committer

2015-02-18 20:30:03 UTC

portmaster supports using sudo when doing port upgrades.  However, this could be a problem when sudo itself is being updated, as when sudo is removed before installing the new package, the system will lose the ability of doing 'sudo'.

It may be a good idea to make portmaster to do some special handling for security/sudo so that it can finish the updates without human intervention.

Comment 1 Bugzilla Automation freebsd_committer

2015-02-18 20:30:03 UTC

Auto-assigned to maintainer bdrewery@FreeBSD.org

Comment 2 Bryan Drewery freebsd_committer

2015-02-18 20:53:06 UTC

I'm not really working on portmaster much. If you want to provide a patch against the github, I will merge it in. https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster

Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2015-04-25 16:09:31 UTC

Assignee is no longer the maintainer.

Comment 4 w.schwarzenfeld 2016-02-09 01:02:10 UTC

simple answer

portmaster -m USES=fakeroot sudo  or
portmaster -m USES=uidfix sudo

Comment 5 w.schwarzenfeld 2016-02-09 01:41:07 UTC

sorry, this was wrong and did not work.

Comment 6 John Marino freebsd_committer

2016-02-10 18:47:20 UTC

PM has a new maintainer, reassign PR.

Comment 7 Stefan Eßer freebsd_committer

2017-12-18 16:56:06 UTC

I agree that there is a problem if sudo is deleted while being required to reinstall it.

One solution could be, to perform the deinstall and install steps within one sudo process (which must not be interrupted, or you'll end up on a system without sudo). 

It might also be possible to always link sudo to e.g. sudo~ before deinstalling a package and then use sudo~ for the installation of the new package (and delete it thereafter).

I'll try to get something implemented along these lines, but cannot promise a date, since more urgent problems in portmaster have priority.