On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Jim Weirich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Charlie Savage wrote: > >> Except it already does by letting a developer specify a Rakefile in >> spec.extensions. That's how I hacked around RubyGems to correctly install >> dependent dlls into the lib directory. >> >> Not to mention the fact that once I have my gem installed, it can pretty >> much do what it wants. > > Once it is installed, it will run as a regular user, not as root. > > Ideally you want to be able to build as a normal user and only switch to > root for the "copy files" portion of the install. Is there a system > independent way of doing that? >
This has been in the Feature request queue of RubyGems for quite some time: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=8820&group_id=126&atid=578 On the portability note, you can drop root privileges on *nix, but is not portable without conditions. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
