On 12/01/17 07:45, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
On 1 Dec 2017, at 12:14, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-degen%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote: Is it possible to run the intitial bootstrap as standard user but being able to write to /usr without being root? In other words, I'm fine with running bootstrap as root but I'd like to keep the pkgsrc directory with my own user's permission.Use bootstrap with a prefix specified. ./bootstrap --prefix /home/foo Sevan
If I'm reading the question correctly, and you really want to install in /usr, you could probably premake the directories:
mkdir /usr/pkg /usr/pkgsrc chown yourlogin /usr/pkg /usr/pkgsrc ./bootstrap --unprivileged ... -- Earth is a beta site.