On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:43:04AM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > If a package were built in user-mode, the executables and libraries > built would be owned by that user, and they'd be put in the .deb and > then installed, all owned by that user. Which is often ok, but > sometimes not.
Actually they'd be owned by the installer, unless they were installed by root, wouldn't they? That's kind of what I would want anyway... > > If you want to build as user and install as user, you'd need to to try > the user-mode Fink patches available on the patch tracker. There are > some problems left, but they're arguably fixable if you want to put > work into it. I've already updated the patches and uploaded them to patch 758465, althought I haven't put up a new diff for 13.5 (the 13.3 patch worked fine for this.) > > To build as user but install as root, you'll probably need to port > 'fakeroot'. I've taken a look and it doesn't look easy, partly because > it uses SysV message queues (which don't exist in OS X) and partly > because it depends on DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES (which isn't quite the same > as the Linux equivalent). Give it a shot, if you dare. :-) I really don't care about installing as root (I'm trying to maintain a separate unstable tree with a different user that doesn't have root privileges, so as not to clobber my stable install which is essential to my work environment,) but I'll take a look at it. -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
