Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/6/07, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:45 -0700, Shawn wrote: > > Sorry Brian, I did not read your post closely enough. I think you have > > no choice but to run such a script as root. However, maybe you could > > build all the packages (as user) then, when th

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > There is asciidoc. I don't know if it's powerful enough for our needs, > > but interesting. The kernel and git documentation is processed by > > asciidoc. > > > > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ > > Thanks Dan, My ra

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: > There is asciidoc. I don't know if it's powerful enough for our needs, > but interesting. The kernel and git documentation is processed by > asciidoc. > > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ Thanks Dan, My rant was worth the effort! A new discovery. Off to play with a new

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dislike writing in XML. Computers should do things my way, for my > convenience. Writing the book in XML is, IMO, difficult and error > prone. It should be written with something that outputs the XML, but > edits in English. Wiki mark-up

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: > >> The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in >> the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's >> DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Brian
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:21:36 -, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an >> unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and else

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Brian
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:21:43 -, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian wrote: >> Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an >> unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere >> (though not in LFS), but I ca

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Brian
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:45:20 -, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 1, 2007, Brian wrote: >> Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an >> unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere >> (though not in LF

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: > The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in > the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's > DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good. I'd probably handle

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/1/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. If running 'make' as roo

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Lord
Brian wrote: > Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an > unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. > (The reason I'm asking, in case you're interes

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 3/1/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an >> unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > You pretty much hit the nail on the head. In LFS, we don&

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Shawn
On March 1, 2007, Brian wrote: > Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an > unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. > > If running 'make' as root co

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/1/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an > unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. > > If running 'ma

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Shawn
On March 1, 2007, Brian wrote: > Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an > unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. > > If running 'make' as root co