From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 28 13:59:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40B837B401 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C7043E4A for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 087C866B28; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports as non-root user. Message-ID: <20020928205906.GA86858@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020928024604.GD66227@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020928115626.GA31114@mithrandr.moria.org> <7e1y7e5b9a.y7e@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7e1y7e5b9a.y7e@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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 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