Date: 20 Oct 2002 13:34:49 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: openpkg Message-ID: <fghefg3l3q.efg@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021019141922.36ff5429.chip@wiegand.org> References: <20021019141922.36ff5429.chip@wiegand.org>
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Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> writes: > I was just reading SysAdmin article about OpenPKG, it says FreeBSD 4.x > fully supports this package management system. I can't find any info on > the FreeBSD web site. Any used it yet? I started to try it a couple of days ago because it sounded like it would allow me to install at least some software without having to run installation scripts of uncertain trustworthiness (like most ports) as "root", something that really bugs me. OpenPKGs seems to support that but it get off to a bad start by requiring you to run it's installation software as "root"! Oh well, I'll probably do it, but I'm still investigating the situation. They put up a silly, but more significant hurdle by asking for 300 MB in "/", but I got around that by installing off "/" and by first creating a /tmp/openpkg-1.1.0 link to somewhere with enough room. It was a long build, but completed OK as non-root. Then you must run a script as root to finish up. BTW, I recently tried to convert the entire /usr/local, /usr/ports, /var/db/pkg scheme to belong to and run as local:local using BINOWN=local and BINGRP=local, and it worked OK with some ports, but there are just too many ports which insist on running as root. (Not that that scheme buys much security.) The OpenPKGs people have committed to working around such problems, but it's sometimes lots of work, no doubt a contributing reason for their having only a few hundred packages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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