On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:01:49PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said: [...] > What else does --with-no-root-privileges do? The help only says it > will "Specify that MacPorts should be installed in your home > directory". I do not want MacPorts in my home directory; I want it > where I indicate with --prefix. The name of the option implies that > it should be used by someone who does not have root privileges, or > who does not want MacPorts to use root privileges. I have and do want > MacPorts to use root privileges if necessary, but for most ports it > is not necessary. Should I use the --with-no-root-privileges option?
Which documentation are you reading, it sounds like that may be not quite correct? The comments in aclocal.m4 just say: if with user specifies --with-no-root-privileges, use current user and group. use ~/Library/Tcl as Tcl package directory so it is sort of a convenience for install user and group (to your current user and group), and for the Tcl package dir. > > >As for --with-macports-user, you'll want to set that to the same > >user when doing non-root, as otherwise it defaults to root currently > >(apparently due to the functionality having bugs still [1]). In > >the future > >this would be the user who would actually own the build as it happens > > And who will that be? My user id, root, or some new user? Good question, probably something we'd need to figure out to get it completed; at least for root installs, it could even use nobody for building, though nobody is sometimes abused for such purposes... > > >then > >port would only set to root for the actual install. > > > >Bryan > > > >[1] - <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/aclocal.m4#L358> > > I see the comment there reads "dropping root privs is still buggy". > In what way? No idea, as that comment is the sole source of my information concerning that. Bryan _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
