Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports as non-root user. Message-ID: <20020928205906.GA86858@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <7e1y7e5b9a.y7e@localhost.localdomain> References: <ws65ws8zzp.5ws@localhost.localdomain> <20020928024604.GD66227@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020928115626.GA31114@mithrandr.moria.org> <7e1y7e5b9a.y7e@localhost.localdomain>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:28:49AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> writes: >=20 > > On Fri 2002-09-27 (19:46), Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >=20 > > > It hasn't been a design goal in the past. It would probably be nice > > > to support it, but it's a lot of work. >=20 > Which means to me (as a begger who shouldn't be choosy), that I > shouldn't complain about ports which don't support it. >=20 > It also means that it'll be impractical to try to maintain a couple > hundred port/package installations without doing it as root. (Doing > just the build as non-root is not worth the loss of using portupgrade.) You can also use sudo to perform certain makefile steps as root..portupgrade has good support for this. Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lhgaWry0BWjoQKURAoJQAKDFCXg84jue5c4N2qZ9UPIoyGswZQCg01rA kmM4H/4x411gRuDIRAR60w4= =EsLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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