Hey Josh,
If you have any questions, give me a shout. I'm still around I just
haven't had much time - I'm in final year of my Computer Science
course and workload is crazy.
I just finished merging the changes from the gsoc08-privileges branch
back into trunk. This of course has the potential for breakage,
though I
changed the default back to running as root, so you should hopefully
not
see any problems unless you pass --with-macports-user=you to
configure.
The privilege dropping has its issues. For example, if you start port
with sudo, the configure and build phases will be run as root. But
then
root privileges will be dropped by the time it tries to clean after
installing, with predictable results.
I was aware of this problem. The solution is to elevate privileges if
clean fails, which I thought I'd written code to do so. However, as
I'm sure you noticed, I haven't had time to keep the branch up to date
so it is entirely possible that the code has been bypassed in the flow
of control somehow.
So there's still some tweaking to be done, but I figured the sooner it
was merged, the less bitrot there'd be to deal with.
Agreed, thanks actually for going ahead. I had meant to get it merged
into trunk at the end of the summer but with all the v1.7 release
stuff and the change in port managers, it didn't really seem the best
time to merge in a large amount of code. I amn't sure if you have
seen: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/gsoc08-privileges , if not it
might be worth a read.
Regards,
Paul.
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