On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:40:51AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said: > I have been running a non-root installation of MacPorts 1.7.1 and > earlier with no problems. I use "port install foo" (without sudo) > most of the time. When I encounter the occasional port that really > does require root, then I use sudo. > > I now have a non-root install of MacPorts 1.8.0 and Snow Leopard on a > clean drive and I am having problems.
What was the configure line you used to do the install? I have a 1.8 install in my homedir, which had no problems with zlib. > > First, MacPorts now tells me all the time "MacPorts running without > privileges. You may be unable to complete certain actions (eg > install)." Is there a way to get MacPorts to shut up about it? :) I > know what I'm doing and don't need to be reminded about it ten times > per port. That is pretty ugly output, it should probably only say so once I would say (per run). Ticket? > > Second, every port I've tried so far fails to get through the install > phase, citing permission problems with manpages, presumably relating > to MacPorts' re-compressing of manpages. The latter is filed as > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20887 Since I'm not seeing this, it's probably a deal with needing some more configure options (assuming you used the same as in that ticket). I have been using: $ ./configure --prefix=/Users/blb/MacPorts/mp-test --with-tclpackage=/Users/blb/MacPorts/mp-test/Library/Tcl --with-applications-dir=/Users/blb/MacPorts/mp-test/Applications --with-frameworks-dir=/Users/blb/MacPorts/mp-test/Library/Frameworks --with-install-user=blb --with-install-group=blb --with-no-root-privileges --with-macports-user=blb --enable-readline (or similar paths) for my home-based installs. It may be the --with-macports-user that is needed. Bryan [...] _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
