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Date:      Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:15:30 +0900
From:      suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to develop a port/package without root previlege?
Message-ID:  <20000207031530.15496.qmail@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami's message of 06 Feb 2000 09:23:33 -0800<vqc4sbmp7my.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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>>If there's any wrong destination in Makefile (by careless mistake),
>>making installation with root previlege can gives unrecovervable
>>damage to the credencial (which files came from which ports/package,
>>which files conflicts with which ports/package, etc etc).
> 
>How about setting up a chroot area and installing it there?

Nice idea (BTW, union filesystem is yet experimental?),
but to chroot, root previlege is required, I think.
I wish if I could stay as a restricted user (without
executing su, sudo, etc) and finish to build foo-1.2.3.tgz...

suzuki


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