From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 6 19:15: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp (file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp [130.34.117.125]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 617173F48 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15497 invoked by uid 239); 7 Feb 2000 03:15:30 -0000 Message-ID: <20000207031530.15496.qmail@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:15:30 +0900 From: suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami's message of 06 Feb 2000 09:23:33 -0800 Subject: Re: How to develop a port/package without root previlege? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: addmail [version 2.0.12] Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message