building/testing ports as non-root

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Thu May 19 21:35:51 GMT 2005


How do people here usually test/build ports when they do not
have root on a box?

I have this...

any suggestions to make it better?

export DISTDIR=~/.ports-distdir
export WRKDIRPREFIX=~/.ports-wrkdir
export PREFIX=~/
export INSTALL_AS_USER=YES
# XXX: do this dynamically one day.
export PERL_VER=5.005
export SITE_PERL=~/lib/perl5/site_perl/${PERL_VER}



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