From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: Generated microcode objects should be group writeable by group wobj - see WOBJUMASK in bsd.obj.mk
To: Evan Silberman <evan@jklol.net>
Cc: Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:37:34 +0100

On 2024/09/28 14:14, Evan Silberman wrote:
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> 
> > On Sep 28, 2024, at 11:16 AM, Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it> wrote:
> > 
> > Building base should not require root privileges.
> 
> It does, though, which release(8) and the error message you posted both state.

Actually building doesn't, but the build infrastructure does so that it
can de-escalate to the "build" user where needed.

Adapt your build scripts to the existing infrastructure, rather than
trying to adapt infrastructure to how you think it should look to
work with your scripts.