Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:06:45 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-root port/package installs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502081602520.14186-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <4209346F.3010801@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ade Lovett wrote: > Conceptually, yes. The point of the followup is that it would probably > make more sense to have package building clusters run as a > non-privileged user. > > This would then show up ALL ports that need such modification for > pre-install/pre-su-install and post-install/post-su-install, and fixes > could be done tree-wide, rather than going on a piecemeal basis which is > likely to take considerably longer, and require considerably more effort. I'm working on a draft of the ports "worthy projects list" and this should definitely be on it. (I have my 4.x ports set up as non-root so I continually trip over this.) In the short-term there are a number of other things that IMHO we need go get through pointyhat *-exp runs on first, so I would classify this one as a medium-term goal. This would be a situation where someone with a spare tinderbox could have a good impact on the project. mcl
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