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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:32:04
Message-Id: 20040930142812.23a00ffe@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges by "Chris L. Mason"
1 On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:24:46 -0300 "Chris L. Mason" <clmason@×××××.com>
2 wrote:
3 | I've been trying to figure out if it is possible to have all emerges
4 | (especially the builds) to be done as a non-root user, and have the
5 | process call sudo (or similar) only for the final merge. All
6 | downloading, unpacking, compiling and installing to the fake target
7 | should be doable without root permissions. So, you'd just need to be
8 | in the portage group, and be configured in sudo.
9
10 Well, there's FEATURES="userpriv"...
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges "Chris L. Mason" <clmason@×××××.com>