Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:05:25 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> Subject: New feature of bsd.port.mk: "Switching to root credentials". Do we need this ALWAYS? Message-ID: <968922890.20030802230525@serebryakov.spb.ru>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello, ports! How are you?
I'm building my ports (ports, which I maintain) in my home
directory. I have them checked out to my home directory
(/usr/home/lev/ports) and I install them into my home directory, and I
register them in my home directory.
So, typical command line for `make(1)' is:
make DISTDIR=/usr/home/lev/distfiles PREFIX=/usr/home/lev/local PKG_DBDIR=/usr/home/lev/var/db/pkg all
make DISTDIR=/usr/home/lev/distfiles PREFIX=/usr/home/lev/local PKG_DBDIR=/usr/home/lev/var/db/pkg install
make DISTDIR=/usr/home/lev/distfiles PREFIX=/usr/home/lev/local PKG_DBDIR=/usr/home/lev/var/db/pkg deinstall
And now `make install' asks me for root password! And all files are
installed into my home directory with root permissions! And `make
desintall' doesn't work at all (because it don't use `su(1)')!
I don't think, that it was good idea to `su(1)' into `root' on ANY
`make install'! It is very difficult to install port `locally' now,
and it is very uncomfortable for me as maintainer of many ports. I
don't want to install ports, which I'm upgrading, into system (before
I'm sure, that port was upgraded properly), and I don't want to become
root for this operation, and after that, pass all files to myself
(from root) for working of `make deinstall'.
May be, `make install' should check owner of PREFIX, and if owner --
current user, skip `su(1)' phase?
Lev Serebryakov
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?968922890.20030802230525>