Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#30071 closed defect
dbus cannot install without root privileges — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | etlverified@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | dbus |
Description
I have installed macports without root privileges by configuring it with "--with-no-root-privileges --with-install-user=$USER". This is an important use case; a number of developers at my company use macports this way (no root access).
I've found that a large number of useful packages depend on dbus (e.g. qt4-mac), which fails to install without root privileges:
---> Activating dbus @1.4.12_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: error copying "/Users/etl/macports/var/macports/software/dbus/1.4.12_0/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist" to "/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist": permission denied Error: Failed to install dbus
Could you please make the dbus port somehow install when macports is not configured for root access? Something like qt4-mac is just a library; it shouldn't need administrator privileges to be installed. Similarly, pretty much every app from the GNOME desktop depends on dbus.