On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:06:03PM +0200, Antoine Brodin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Julio Merino <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I needed the patch below to be able to build python27 when using ports as > > an unprivileged user. It is a bit too coarse-grained, but I think ports > > does not offer a finer-grained mechanism to indicate that only the staging > > phase needs root. > > > > (Note that pkgsrc marks all python packages as requiring root for the > > stage phase... and I suppose it's because of the same problem I > > encountered.) > > > > What do you think? (If you think this is OK, I'll need an explicit approval > > to commit.) > > Hi, > > It's better to understand and fix the cause of the failure as non-root > than putting NEED_ROOT.
pkgsrc has had the "need root" requirement in place for _years_ and people have tried to fix it before. For these reasons, I don't think it's a trivial thing to do this and I certainly do not have the time to investigate it at the moment. _______________________________________________ freebsd-python@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-python To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-python-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"