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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