Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:21:27 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .mk files & make fetch & permissions Message-ID: <199508140421.VAA01622@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508121015.MAA13188@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> (message from Julian Howard Stacey on Sat, 12 Aug 1995 12:15:21 %2B0200)
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* It would be preferable if this install stuff did not happen from `fetch'
* with no requirement for root privs.
I am aware of this problem, this has been discussed numerous times
before, I posted a solution (albeit a hack) here a short while back.
Didn't you see it, I thought you were one of the people who
complained?
The solution: you can set
IS_DEPENDED_TARGET=fetch
in the make command line to avoid this.
The more general problem is, of course, that make doesn't know if the
dependency is required for fetching, building, insalling or fetching,
because technically it's possible to install a new version of ncftp or
something as a dependency before doing the fetch stage.
I have ideas on how to solve this in bsd.port.mk (this has been
discussed here before too, and we already have a partial agreement),
unfortunately bsd.port.mk is now in a holdup stage with the big
rewrite test going on, I can't touch it right now.
If you don't understand what the above does, please go dig up the mail
archives or (gasp) read bsd.port.mk. :)
Satoshi
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