On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild > install". Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not as > root. It fails because at least some steps such as dobin need to give > away ownership of the files being installed. I tried to run the whole > thing including compilation under fakeroot but that doesn't help. > > If it is relevant (but I don't think it is) my user _is_ in the portage > group. > > What is the accepted or usual way to do this task? > > -- > Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, > if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. > To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists > which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. > > You can normally build as yourself. Install requires root typically due to write permissions on *bin and /etc. You can probably come up with a clever way to do this, but by far the easiest is the classic: sudo ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild install -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
