From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 19:36:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pmade.org (dsl-att1-118-93.sb.101freeway.net [12.44.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510E437B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:36:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pjones@localhost) by pmade.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA47460; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjones@pmade.org) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:35:06 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Jones To: Stijn Hoop Cc: Allan Dib , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing a port In-Reply-To: <20001119210832.B69727@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Hum, I can't think right away of a difference other than that the first is > a lot shorter. > > 'make install' does a 'make all' (which is what you get if you type 'make') > internally. > > The most secure method would be to do 2 separate steps: > 1. cd /usr/ports/foobar && make > as a user I don't think that this will work unless the user has write permission to /usr/ports/distfiles and /usr/ports/foobar. > 2. become root and do > cd /usr/ports/foobar && make install > > However, this breaks if the port needs to install any dependencies (because > it'll try to install those using your user account), so you'll have to > install each port manually. > > For normal use, just use 'make install' as root and you'll be fine. > > HTH, > > --Stijn -- ....................................................................... : Peter Jones : Unix Geek - Four Wheeling : : pjones@pmade.org : Code Writing - Jesus Freak : :....................................:................................: :echo er|perl -0160 -pe ';$;=ord$/;s;^;"\U$/".chr($\;-11).chr$\;+4;e;': :.....................................................................: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message