Date: 13 Sep 2002 00:00:59 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: docs on building & installing ports as non-root Message-ID: <66lm669xw4.m66@localhost.localdomain>
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I've spent several hours trying to find some article I thought I saw about a month which explained how to build and install from ports without having to run as root in order to have write-access to the /usr/ports and /usr/local trees. Anybody remember seeing such a document lately, or one like it? The handbook says: "You must be the root user to install ports." The ports are nice, but I miss the build-from-tarball days when you could install apps as a normal user. (I know I should be able to figure something out from info in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, but there seems to be too many unknowns.) I don't know how you'd make changes to /var/db/pkg without being root, but maybe it's OK to have other databases owned by other users. I'd be willing to drop protections on /var/db/pkg to be able to run all those scary build & install scripts as non-root.) Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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