Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh <wlosh@bsdimp.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> Subject: Re: Allow user install Message-ID: <367C13EE-D631-4864-B873-FE912E6727A4@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> writes:
>> The patch below is a step towards supporting unprivileged buildworld
>> etc. Eg.
>=20
> Wow, this is really cool - and long overdue.
Yes.
> I've been thinking for a while that some bor^H^H^Henterprising soul
> should hack install(1) so that if a specific environment variable is
> set, it writes the file to a tarball instead of writing it to disk.
> Unfortunately, there would still be a ton of ${LN} etc. that would =
need
> to be handled somehow. Perhaps install(1) should have an option to
> create symlinks so we could use that instead of ln -s, in the interest
> of reducing the number of different tools used during installation.
I'd prefer that to this hack, honestly, but this hack is cool. NetBSD =
did this years ago, and bringing it and the changes to xtree would be a =
good thing. There's also a number of mkdirs that also need to be =
updated. Let's not reinvent the wheel here, when there's a perfectly =
good wheel elsewhere.
> (BTW, I find INSTALL_OWN confusing - how about UNPRIVILEGED_INSTALL or
> USER_INSTALL?)
Well, the former is more correct. The latter are the real goal :) I'm =
not sure I like any of the names, but that will work itself out.
Warner
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