Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:07:39 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Harti Brandt <harti@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld for non-root user Message-ID: <20040707080739.GB66260@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040707095457.J3232@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <20040707095457.J3232@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > > Hi all, > > is there an easy way for a non-root user to test the installworld target? > I came up with > > make SHAREOWN=harti SHAREGRP=harti LIBOWN=harti LIBGRP=harti \ > NOFSCHG=yes INFOMODE=644 INFOOWN=harti INFOGRP=harti MANOWN=harti \ > MANGRP=harti BINOWN=harti BINGRP=harti DESTDIR=/t/scratch/harti/root/ \ > installworld > > but that one breaks in libexec/pt_chown (which has a hard-coded > BINOWN=root). > > Perhaps I can't see the obvious solution? > Many bits hardcode owners/groups/modes/flags, but it's still possible to install as non-root. In fact, buildworld already does this for you -- it uses src/tools/install.sh as INSTALL to do it (see the BMAKEENV setting in Makefile.inc1). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA669LqRfpzJluFF4RAgSXAJ48yFQORQ2p+YTPqx3g5GAKWHq9kQCcC0/J zAYAUt7dVUM0buk9o8BDp4U= =YAZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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