6 Feb 2008 00:14
Re: pkgsrc-wip NetBSD 4.99.52/i386 2008-02-02 11:48
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov <at> tut.by>
2008-02-05 23:14:05 GMT
2008-02-05 23:14:05 GMT
>> > X11_TYPE=modular
>> > UNPRIVILEGED=yes
>> > PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/usr/bulk/pkg/custom_etc
>> > PKGMANDIR=custom_man
>>
>> > wip/runawk cheusov <at> tut.by
>>
>> I cannot reproduce this under NetBSD and Linux, both unprivileged.
>> Are you sure you use correct make (/usr/bulk/pkg/bin/bmake) ?
> Unprivileged build, read again.
What exactly?
9.4. How to use pkgsrc as non-root
If you want to use pkgsrc as non-root user, you can set some
variables to make pkgsrc work under these conditions. At the very
least, you need to set UNPRIVILEGED to "yes"; this will turn on
unprivileged mode and set multiple related variables to allow
installation of packages as non-root.
In case the defaults are not enough, you may want to tune some
other variables used. For example, if the automatic user/group
detection leads to incorrect values (or not the ones you would
like to use), you can change them by setting UNPRIVILEGED_USER
and UNPRIVILEGED_GROUP respectively.
As regards bootstrapping, please note that the bootstrap script
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