Greg Novak said: > > 2) Or, add to the top of the "Package maintainer docs" a paragraph that > describes how to achieve "safe" package tests by commenting the relevant > line in Engine.pm and making /sw/src writeable by users.
Would tarball downloading *ever* need to be done as root? If not (and I can't think of such a case) and downloading is always done as a system call (cf. via LWP.pm) then /sw/src could be owned by a normal user for everyone and fink do a sudo to that user as part of the system(). Note that this is the current situation with /sw/fink/10.2 and the action of selfupdate-cvs. Probably /sw/src should be chmod 755 with sticky-bit to avoid problems with the user rearranging root-owned build directories (not gonna get into user-land building right now:) This would remove the need to be root to 'fink fetch'. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
