Hm, I think maybe i will just abort this effort on my system since it seems
like Matthew is already kinda working on making this exact thing better (as he
said earlier) at https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/dfbb7040a
I'll just use user scope now and wait until this kind of thing is explicitly
supported, unless you guys think it's possible to do correctly now?
Nate
> On May 20, 2021, at 4:00 AM, Nathaniel W Griswold <nate@manicmind.earth>
> wrote:
>
> To be clear:
>
> "/opt/Racket/Racket 8.1" is the system racket which the unprivileged user
> cannot write.
> "/opt/Racket/Packages/8.1" is a unprivileged-writable directory intended for
> use as a package destination.
>
> Nate
>
>> On May 20, 2021, at 3:55 AM, Nathaniel W Griswold <nate@manicmind.earth>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and i'll just duplicate the issue here for Matthew / the Racket side
>> since it could just be racket related:
>>
>> The errors i ran into are when using a custom PLTCONFIGDIR with this
>> config.rktd:
>>
>> ---
>> #hash((build-stamp . "")
>> (catalogs
>> .
>> ("https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.1/catalog/"; #f))
>> (default-scope . "installation")
>> (doc-dir . "/opt/Racket/Packages/8.1/doc")
>> (doc-search-dirs . (#f "/opt/Racket/Racket 8.1/doc"))
>> (doc-search-url
>> .
>>
>> "https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.1/doc/local-redirect/index.html";)
>> (links-file . "/opt/Racket/Packages/8.1/links.rktd")
>> (links-search-files . (#f "/opt/Racket/Racket 8.1/share/links.rktd"))
>> (pkgs-dir . "/opt/Racket/Packages/8.1/pkgs")
>> (pkgs-search-dirs . (#f "/opt/Racket/Racket 8.1/share/pkgs")))
>> ---
>>
>> The files that `raco pkg install` as an unprivileged user ends up trying to
>> delete are:
>>
>> open-output-file: error deleting file
>> path: /opt/Racket/Racket 8.1/share/shares.rktd
>> system error: Permission denied; errno=13
>>
>> open-output-file: error deleting file
>> path: /opt/Racket/Racket 8.1/lib/launchers.rktd
>> system error: Permission denied; errno=13
>>
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?
>>
>> Nate
>>
>>
>>> On May 20, 2021, at 3:48 AM, Nathaniel W Griswold <nate@manicmind.earth>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sam,
>>>
>>> Yes, the tool and PLTCONFIGDIR help me better control things. I think the
>>> tool is helpful. I ran into a problem with racket trying to delete files
>>> and posted it on github at
>>> https://github.com/samdphillips/raco-pkg-env/issues/3
>>>
>>> I don't think it's really a raco-pkg-env issue, though, i guess it wouldbe
>>> more of a racket issue if it is a problem and not a mistake on my part.
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>>> On May 18, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You might also be interested in the new `raco-pkg-env` tool:
>>>> https://github.com/samdphillips/raco-pkg-env/
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:20 PM Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, this approach can work. I don't think the existing Racket tools
>>>>> will help much with persisting a configuration across versions, though,
>>>>> so you'd probably have to script that.
>>>>>
>>>>> One potential drawback of your approach is that executables,
>>>>> documentation, etc., associated with the extra package will get
>>>>> rendered into the main installation area instead of the "/opt/Racket"
>>>>> are. That may be fine for your purposes, but a more strictly layered
>>>>> installation is meant to be possible. It turns out that some pieces
>>>>> have been missing for layering, and fixing that is an area of current
>>>>> work (https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/dfbb7040a).
>>>>>
>>>>> At Sun, 16 May 2021 23:43:52 -0500, Nathaniel W Griswold wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was setting up Racket on my linux box and i realized that there are a
>>>>>> lot of
>>>>>> options for path configuration and i forgot a lot of what i discovered
>>>>>> last
>>>>>> time i dug into this. I was trying to set up installation scope but
>>>>>> maybe a
>>>>>> little cleanly and figured someone might have some input.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want a package at roughly installation scope, but i kinda wanted to
>>>>>> know what
>>>>>> was added by me and what was part of the default installation. Is this
>>>>>> reasonable or should i just deal with it and dump stuff in
>>>>>> $RACKET/share/pkgs?
>>>>>> If it is reasonable then what is the best way to set this up?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just FYI I did an in-place install of Racket in "/opt/Racket/Racket\ 8.1"
>>>>>> symlinked to /opt/Racket...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think maybe what i want is to set to something like
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (in /opt/Racket/etc/config.rktd)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> #hash(... (pkgs-search-dirs . "/opt/Racket 8.1/share/pkgs-system" #f)
>>>>>> (links-search-files . ("/opt/Racket/share/pkgs-system/links.rktd" #f))
>>>>>> ...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then i just did a `sudo /opt/Racket/bin/raco pkg install --scope-dir
>>>>>> /opt/Racket/share/pkgs-system rash`
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ... and the new package seems to be working fine for my users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that what i wanted or is there something better? Is there a way to
>>>>>> configure
>>>>>> config.rktd additions that will persist across upgrades or will i have to
>>>>>> update my config.rktd for every racket release? Do other people do this
>>>>>> kind of
>>>>>> thing or just dump stuff in the installation scope? Maybe there are more
>>>>>> options with a unix-style install, i haven't really tried one yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nate
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