Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On May 19, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> DJ Lucas wrote: >> >>> I have long suggested that LFS and BLFS move to installations >>> from DESTDIR (or equivalent) >> I do use DESTDIR to check the installation of most packages, but there >> are some where it just doesn't work. Actually, any package that decides >> to do a chown or use the -g or -o options of install is a problem, but >> several just ignore DESTDIR completely. > > Not necessarily a problem. There's various ways to address this, > depending on which PM you use. Typically you'd be building an > individual package on a chroot or fake root env where you have privs > to do this very type of thing.
Certainly you have the privs, but I would like to have the capability of doing make DESTDIR=$DEST without being root. I don't particularly like the developer saying "you have to be root to run install". It's my system, not the developer's. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
