From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 22 23:49:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF5D37B405 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020423064928.MUUT12144.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org> for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:49:28 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3N6mDr85231; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:48:13 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Fictif Cc: FreeBSD ML Subject: Re: Ports dealing with non-root users suggestion Message-ID: <20020422234813.D84809@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020422124051.A79219@mysticjah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020422124051.A79219@mysticjah.org>; from fitctif@mysticjah.org on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:40:51PM +0200 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:40:51PM +0200, Fictif wrote: > The idea is to allow normal users to use the ports dir to install apps. > I think it's an interesting idea to allow users to keep a clean home dir > and this would allow the Admin to know what apps users are using... Then > a script could link the existing apps existing on different users > account toward a same location (btw,just in case the app was not > installed by the Admin). > > Here is the idea which implies many features and requirements (like a > dir for 'users ports' -needed for various libs, shared docs or logs files- which doesn't depend on the usual dirs). I don't see bigs troubles implied by this way of installing apps but you propably do (That's why I'm posting). > IMHO, this have the advantage of reducing disk space used by users, this > would give simple way to the Admin to monitor the users apps and to > upgrade theses apps. There is probably a safe way to implement this > using the existing ports dir. And what's the reason normal users can't build ports now? Just set DISTDIR, WRKDIRPREFIX, and PREFIX as appropriate. Feel free to report ports that don't work this way, which shouldn't actually require root privileges, as broken. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message