Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of pmagrath

Timestamp:

Jun 15, 2008, 5:51:30 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

pmagrath@…

Comment:

Add progress made so far.

pmagrath

@@ -23 +23 @@
 ==== Reduce need for actions to run as root ====
 MacPorts operations which do not explicitly need root privileges will be re-coded so that they will run with normal user privileges. Examples would include fetching, extracting and building the port.
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+''Pretty much done. fetch, checksum, extract, patch, configure and build should now work fine. Operations are executed in ~/.macports/opt/.''
 
 ==== Portfile Format ====
@@ -55 +57 @@
 This will allow users to install packages into their own ~/.macports/opt instead of /opt when non root users wish to install ports for their own use only.
 
+''Done.  A switch called "--with-no-root-privileges" has been added. Note that --prefix is a built in Autoconf macro that requires an absolute path. As such an example would be "./configure --prefix=/Users/{your-user-name-here}/.macports --with-no-root-privileges"''
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 === Goals ===