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

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 12/01/17 08:37, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> 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.
If you want to build packages as a non-root user, you want --unprivileged.

auto-pkgsrc-setup (http://acadix.biz/pkgsrc.php, 
http://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/) uses this when the invoking 
user is not root:

        ./bootstrap \
            ${abi_flags} \
            --unprivileged \
            --prefix ${install_prefix} \
            --pkgdbdir ${sys_prefix}/pkgdb \
            --sysconfdir ${sys_prefix}/etc \
            --varbase ${sys_prefix}/var \
            --workdir ${sys_prefix}/work 2>&1 | tee 
bootstrap$dist_suffix.log

Have a look at the script to see what the variables mean...

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