Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:34:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld as someone other than root? Message-ID: <199812282234.OAA13164@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:30:02 PST." <199812282230.WAA11845@bplus.juniper.net>
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> Before I go beating my brains around an impossibility, has anyone ever played > with making at least the initial part of 'buildworld' buildable as someone > other than root? > > Why do I ask? Well, we're playing around with multiple trees for projects, > and need a "self-contained" mini freebsd environment. This usually means > a directory structure populated with a reasonable subset of .h files and > libraries. > > Currently, we build just such a thing, but we've got to do it as root because > install and mtree want to change ownerships. > > I was randomly thinking of adding code to install and mtree to allow them > to quietly ignore failures for chown/chgrp's... but this is rather evil. > > Does anyone have better ideas? Do it chrooted with funny group/password files where everyone has the same UID/GID? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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