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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:19:40 -0400
From:      "Daniel Staal" <DStaal@usa.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: build ports from not a root user?
Message-ID:  <bd3d6dc9b6b0040d29f741cc94972b02.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110721153050.GA76083@external.screwed.box>
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On Thu, July 21, 2011 11:30 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, freebsd-questions!
> 2011/07/21 11:04:57 -0400 Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> => To
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
> DS> > I'd like to build my ports from not a root user.
> DS> > How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user )
> before
> DS> > to
> DS> > build the dependencies?
> DS> > Can portupgrade handle this?
> DS> > Dependencies should be installed from a root user.
> DS>
> DS> Install sudo, and (as long as your permissions are set correctly) the
> DS> ports system can do everything except the install and configure from a
> DS> user in the 'wheel' group.
>
> Heck I know I can use su or sudo and after
>
>     chown -Rf user00:group00 /usr/ports/ /usr/src/ /usr/obj
>
> I can build world or a single port with 'make'. It's easy.
>
> But with ports I know the dependencies will not follow my policy to
> install the
> every single port as:
>
>     $ cd /usr/ports/category/port00
>     $ make
>     $ su -
>     # cd /usr/ports/category/port00
>     # make install
>     # exit
>     $ cd /usr/ports/category/port01
>     ... and so on ...

No, it'll _build_ each port as your user, and then try to go to root to
install them.  Which is why I suggested sudo: You can tune it's timeouts,
and only have to enter your password occasionally.  (Why do you trust a
port's dependencies to be built as root if you don't trust the port
itself, after all?)

The other option would be to do something like this:

$ su -
# make depends
# exit
$ make
$ su -
# make install

Which should be fairly close to what you are saying.

Daniel T. Staal

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