Building/Installing ports as a normal user
Frank Laszlo
laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Wed Nov 17 05:51:46 PST 2004
Frank Laszlo wrote:
> Last week I was confronted with a problem, I had a port I wanted to
> debug on an alternate platform, and only had a normal user account on
> this platform, specifically sparc64. So my task was to build/install
> the port as a normal user without root access. This posed to be a
> difficult task. There was many make.conf options and environment
> variables that needed to be set. All and all, I got it to work. I'm
> sure there is a few bugs in the system, but I would like others to
> test it and give me some feedback. I'm in the process of writing an
> article for FreeBSD Diary, which will document the entire procedure. I
> have however created an installation script that will setup a machine
> to do this. You can download the script from:
> http://www.franksworld.org/~laszlof/localuser-portinstall.sh
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, I am
> looking for any patches or other fixes that may be needed, eventually
> I will have a more proper installation for this, and possibly even a C
> frontend (maybe like a shell wrapper) Thank you all in advance for
> your support.
I made a couple updates, thanks to Dirk Meyer for making these
suggestions, and the new home for this script will be
http://www.franksworld.org/localuser_portinstall.html. Thanks for
everyone who tested this for me.
Regards,
Frank Laszlo
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