Jerry Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:00:28PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Jerry Talkington wrote: > > > > >Is there any way to install fink without superuser privileges? It > > >doesn't make any sense to me that you would need to be root to install > > >non-system packages. > > > > There's already an item on the patch-tracker for this: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/ > > index.php?func=detail&aid=576203&group_id=17203&atid=317203 > > Sweet. I've updated the patch for 0.5.2 and package manager 0.13.2, but > I can't seem to attach them to the tracker.
I don't understand sourceforge permissions very well; it may be that since you're not a fink developer, you're not allowed to attach stuff to items you didn't initiate. If that's the case, just open a new tracker item, and then please cross-reference the two items with messages to each including the tracker item number. > > > > > If you need this feature, you could work on updating this patch--it's > > now a bit old. Also, you could help figure out how we should handle > > packages that need root privileges, like passwd (adding users), > > passwd and similar packages should have system-<package> equivalents > (like system-xfree86), since the user may not need to install them (I > have them already installed from my stable fink tree, but people could > have already have them installed from a NetInfo root, NIS, LDAP, etc.). > What the passwd package does is to add a specific list of new users to netinfo, users that are needed by specific fink packages (e.g. postgresql). We've realized for some time that this is a hack, and should be replaced by some other mechanism, but the fact will remain: certain packages need to run with users of their own, and root access will be needed to create those users (and presumably to install things which are owned by those users). -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
