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On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 02:07 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
Greg Novak said:
2) Or, add to the top of the "Package maintainer docs" a paragraph that
describes how to achieve "safe" package tests by commenting the relevant
line in Engine.pm and making /sw/src writeable by users.
Would tarball downloading *ever* need to be done as root? If not (and I can't think of such a case) and downloading is always done as a system call (cf. via LWP.pm) then /sw/src could be owned by a normal user for everyone and fink do a sudo to that user as part of the system(). Note that this is the current situation with /sw/fink/10.2 and the action of selfupdate-cvs.
Yes, and it gets to be quite a pain when that user is removed from the system. in order for your idea to work smoothly, a new user and group would need to be created, and fink would need to run as a single constant user, with the people in the fink group able to change the info files if needed.
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Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
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