Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] doc: environment: make toolchain directory user writeable as root

[Christian Hermann <christian.hermann@hytera.de>]

Hello list,

see below.

Kind regards

On 29.05.20 10:28, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:14:44AM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:05:14AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
>>> Creating the toolchain directory under /opt and making it writeable to
>>> the user should be done as root. Make this very obvious by prepending
>>> the commans with sudo.
>>
>> Hmm, it does say that you probably need root permissions to do this in the
>> paragraph above. I'm not sure if adding sudo here helps any.There's a convention to prefix commands requiring root's privilege with
'#' instead of '$'.
> 
> It's just a suggestion, this way people who like to copy & paste code
> snippets would be less likely to miss the comment about required root
> permissions above.
> 
You should never copy/paste text obtained from a browser into your
terminal emulator as many don't provide proper paste protection[1].
Or at least be very sure to know how your emulator works in this regard.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/

>> Also, I need to rewrite the whole section because the latest toolchains are
>> handled differently.
> 
> Ok, no worries.
> 
> regards
> Philipp
> 
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