Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:54:24 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Allow user install Message-ID: <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> (Simon Gerraty's message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:30:17 -0700") References: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net>
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Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> writes:
> The patch below is a step towards supporting unprivileged buildworld
> etc. Eg.
Wow, this is really cool - and long overdue.
I've been thinking for a while that some bor^H^H^Henterprising soul
should hack install(1) so that if a specific environment variable is
set, it writes the file to a tarball instead of writing it to disk.
Unfortunately, there would still be a ton of ${LN} etc. that would need
to be handled somehow. Perhaps install(1) should have an option to
create symlinks so we could use that instead of ln -s, in the interest
of reducing the number of different tools used during installation.
(BTW, I find INSTALL_OWN confusing - how about UNPRIVILEGED_INSTALL or
USER_INSTALL?)
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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