On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Julio Merino <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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.
koobs' new python34 port (not committed yet) packages fine as non root, so it seems doable. Cheers, Antoine _______________________________________________ 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"
