Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:46:02 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How an arbitrary user can install ports in own home dir? Message-ID: <20030716134602.GB82301@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030716120304.GA44094@pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> References: <20030716120304.GA44094@pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:03:04PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> Hello all,
>=20
> How an arbitrary user (without root credentials) can install ports
> in own home dir?
>=20
> How I tried to do this:
>=20
> I created ~/local/ports, place Mk, Tools, Templates there.
This step isn't necessary. Well, it might be, but only if you don't have
r-x access on /usr/ports and descendents.
> I defined in .cshrc:
>=20
> setenv PORTSDIR ~/local/ports
Don't bother with setting PORTSDIR, unless you don't have r-x access on the
ports tree. All the framework is there already, so there is little value in
duplicating it.
> setenv PREFIX ~/local
> setenv PKG_DBDIR ~/local/var/db
You also need to define:
DISTDIR - where to find/download distfiles (if you don't have write access
on the system-wide ports distfiles directory)
DESTDIR - where to install the port, once built (relative to ${PREFIX})
WRKDIR - where the distfiles are unpacked, if you don't have write access to
the port's directory under /usr/ports/*
With these variables defined, either in your shell's environment (from, as
you have done, your login dotfiles) of on the make commandline, ports can be
installed exaclty as normal (i.e. cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget && make all install
clean)
For more options, read the variable definitions in
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk.
> But when I install any ports I'm asked to enter root password.
> This is from the bsd.port.mk:
>=20
> .if ${UID} !=3D 0 && defined(_${target:U}_SUSEQ)
> [skip]
> @echo "=3D=3D=3D> Switching to root credentials for '${target}' target"
> @cd ${.CURDIR} && \
> ${SU} root -c "${MAKE} ${__softMAKEFLAGS} ${_${target:U}_SUSEQ}"
> @echo "=3D=3D=3D> Returning to user credentials"
>=20
> If I give correct root's password, then a port is installed to ~/local
> and a package is registered in ~/local/var/db.
Hmm, don't know what this means. With the correct set of variables defined,
I have not yet been asked to provide the root password...
>=20
> Questions:
>=20
> 1. Is there any way to tell ports system not to ask me root's
> password? I guess that there should be a way to do it,
> whithout patching Mk/* files.
I guess by defining the right environment for the build to happen in.
> 2. How to tell make(1) to use ~/local/etc/make.conf file
> (use another file, than /etc/make.conf)?
It seems (from `man 5 make.conf') that make.conf is included from the
Makefile of the target you are building. If you want to use a different
one, I guess you will need to edit the part of the Makefile that pulls in
/etc/make.conf. Can't find a way to specify an alternative.
Of course, none of this is guaranteed to be "correct", but "it works for
me", so naturally, YMMV ;-)
HTH
Dan
--=20
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