Hi! On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 11:42:11AM +0200, Jaroslav Fojtik via cfarm-users wrote: > > > On Sun, 2025-10-12 at 14:03 +0200, Jaroslav Fojtik via cfarm- > > > users wrote: > > > In the interim, the Homebrew installation may or may not work, > > > but you are free to compile whatever software you need. > > > > And install that in /opt/cfarm/ if you want, so that other people (who > > trust you :-) ) can easily use it as well! > > I even did not expect that normal users have RW right to /opt/cfarm/
The directory did not exist, I created it. On pretty much every machine in the cfarm we have /opt/cfarm/ world-writable, it is quite handy (and terribly insecure of course). > and path does not point here. > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin Of course it doesn't, running stuff from world-writable locations is quite a leap of wait already, but doing that for every (perhaps even typoed) command (by name!), well, that is ten steps too far for anyone's taste. > And then I do not know which package manager to use. Looks like there are no > packages > in /opt/ installed yet. There are no package managers. Just "cp" or "mv" or something! > HG is usually precompilled binary in package that is easy to install. > Recompillation is > too much work at least when this is a temporary solution. Mercurial is a challenge to build, yeah. Segher _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
