I started creating some fink packages that I may eventually try to have distributed, and I recently had the extremely unpleasant experience of having a "fink build" command write a whole bunch of files to the fink tree (not the /sw/src/package-root directory, as it was supposed to). It turns out that the package respected configure --prefix=/sw but not make install prefix=/sw/src/package-root, so it happily installed a bunch of files to /sw and none to /sw/src/package-root.
This could be fixed if I could use fink without becoming root. I'd like to do something like: fink build --non-root --workdir=/Users/novak/fink package Then fink would (without becoming root) use /Users/novak/fink as a working directory instead of /sw/src. If I haven't got the .info file correct yet, the package will try to install itself to /sw, but it'll fail with error messages and I can easily play with the .info file until it's right. I thought I could do this by setting RootMethod: none in fink.conf, and making /sw/src writeable by all users. However, fink very politely refuses to do anything at all if it's not root. Not what I was shooting for... I'd appreciate any help/suggestions. This must be a common problem. How do people handle it? Thanks, Greg ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
