Re: pkgsrc, Linux, unprivileged installation

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 03:33:13PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> My Debian Bullseye installation has gone into "oldstable" mode and I
> am not happy with the way Debian is going forward (this has been a
> common moan for most of us Debianistas, at the end we keep on
> upgrading...)
> 
> I had mixed fortunes in the past using pkgsrc as an additional source on Debian.
> 
> My question is: if I perform an unprivileged install and, say, a
> package has to perform an installation on directories that require
> root (for example /etc), is there a mechanism in place that prevents
> the package from being installed and/or complains loudly "DO NOT DO
> THAT"!
> 
> I mean before the "install" phase.

The PKG_SYSCONFDIR variable points to the 'etc' directory, and this is
usually ${PREFIX}/etc, which needs to be writable anyway.
 Thomas