On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Julio Merino <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I needed the patch below to be able to build python27 when using ports as > an unprivileged user. It is a bit too coarse-grained, but I think ports > does not offer a finer-grained mechanism to indicate that only the staging > phase needs root. > > (Note that pkgsrc marks all python packages as requiring root for the > stage phase... and I suppose it's because of the same problem I encountered.) > > What do you think? (If you think this is OK, I'll need an explicit approval > to commit.)
Hi, It's better to understand and fix the cause of the failure as non-root than putting NEED_ROOT. Cheers, Antoine (with hat: portmgr) _______________________________________________ freebsd-python@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-python To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-python-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
