From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 21:35:51 2005 Return-Path: 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 D02BB16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F7143D8A for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id AEA4E5CA2D; Thu, 19 May 2005 14:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:35:51 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050519213551.GB46880@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: building/testing ports as non-root X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:35:51 -0000 How do people here usually test/build ports when they do not have root on a box? I have this... any suggestions to make it better? export DISTDIR=~/.ports-distdir export WRKDIRPREFIX=~/.ports-wrkdir export PREFIX=~/ export INSTALL_AS_USER=YES # XXX: do this dynamically one day. export PERL_VER=5.005 export SITE_PERL=~/lib/perl5/site_perl/${PERL_VER} -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684