On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > If you don't mind the ownership being wrong and there being a few extra > +FOO files tar works. It would be great for someone to teach package to > install without root and to update a METALOG file. That's not 100% of > the solution, but it's a solid 80-90% solution.
(This is just my completely uninformed opinion as I don't know the internals of pkg.) There are other issues to be addressed. Teaching pkg to install without root means changing pkg to not use chroot: i.e. to make pkg be able to deal with the concept of a "destdir" for package installations. That is probably easy: just prefixing a bunch of destdir to the locations being touched. However, the tricky part here is dealing with any package-specific post-install scripts to ensure they understand destdir, which in turn means that any tools executed by the scripts must also be capable of dealing with a destdir. Also, the scripts (being potentially-untrusted code) cannot be guaranteed to behave correctly on the outside-of-the-chroot system. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
