On 08/01/2018 20:46, James E Keenan wrote:
The one place where I have not gotten the desired results is found at
"Procedure 3.1: Recommended Test Ordering"
(https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-testing.html).
Step 6 of that process is to invoke 'make package' as a regular,
non-root user. When I attempted to do so, I was told that I lacked
permission to create a directory. That didn't surprise me, since the
'/usr/ports/' tree has permissions 'drwxr-xr-x' and I, as a member of
group 'wheel', lack 'write' permission for that tree. Hence, I'm
puzzled by this advice:
The non-root user that runs 'make package' needs to have write access to
the ports tree. Most developers will check out a copy of the ports
under their own userid. Alternatively, poudriere has configuration
settings to allow generating a package repository as a non-root user.
"Make sure that make package can be run as a normal user (that is, not
as root). If that fails, the software may need to be patched. See also
Section 17.18, “fakeroot” and Section 17.84, “uidfix”." I installed the
'fakeroot' package but had no better luck when I ran 'fakeroot make
package' as a non-root user.
For a perl port, you probably don't need fakeroot or uidfix -- try
compiling your port with the ports tree made writable by the user you're
compiling as.
Generally, ports tend to need root level access when the installation of
the port to staging involves changing ownership of files. As file
ownership in staging is generally immaterial to the ultimate package,
just tweaking install(1) command lines to avoid setting ownership on
what goes into staging will remove the need for rootly powers.
1. Can someone offer guidance as to how to proceed?
2. I found that to create/edit the Makefile and pkg-descr I had to
become root. That's a style of work that is contrary to my regular
software development practices. With some guidance from an experienced
OpenBSD committer I was able to learn how to prepare ports on that
platform without becoming root. Is there any way to do that in FreeBSD?
Yeah -- start by checking out a copy of the ports under your own
username. There still can be root-access required, for instance if
you're downloading files into /usr/ports/distfiles rather than a custom
distfiles location. This will only affect a small number of commands,
like 'make makesum' or 'make fetch'. Similarly you will need root
powers to actually install the port, but you don't need to go as far as
installing anything when developing the port: being able to run 'make
package' successfully is a sufficient and practical test during the heat
of development.
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