https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258372
--- Comment #7 from John Hein <jcfyecr...@liamekaens.com> --- (In reply to John Hein from comment #6) Re (4). The policy for INSTALL_AS_USER IS documented in pkg(8) and pkg-static(8): It is expected that the user will ensure that every file and directory manipulated by pkg are readable (or writable where appropriate) by the user. So one "fix" for this bug could be no change to anything in the ports tree or the pkg tool - and users should chown /var/db appropriately when doing 'make INSTALL_AS_USER=1 ... install'. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.