Re: Running bootstrap as standard user but without --unprivileged” flag?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-degen%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 1 December 2017 at 14:10, Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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 ...

I thought about doing that; in which case I assume I don't need the
--unprivileged flag. Correct if I'm wrong.

In other words I'd like bootstrap to ask me to be root only when
necessary, a bit like just-in-time su when running "make install".

I think once I tried to run  "bootstrap --unprivileged" but it
wouldn't accept other flags.


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