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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:36:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk -- installing ports as non-root
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0303211042480.26178@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20030317221850.GD23484@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Send it as a pr and assign it to portmgr, and I'll whack it on the
> first 4-exp test run after 4.8 along with some other pending changes.

Thanks! (ports/50159 it is.)

> At some point after this is committed I could try to do a full
> build/install as a non-root user to gather statistics.

Yes, that would be very interesting.  I suppose many maintainers are
not even aware of problems with their ports relating to this, so it
seems like a good idea sending out some kind of report for ports failing
in that mode (but not otherwise, perhaps).

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry"   pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

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