Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] user-mode-portage

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:20, Vardhan Varma wrote:
>    What i want to propose is a modification to portage, such that it
> can be run by a non-root user. There are plenty of users ( in
> corporate and educational   e.g. ) who don't control the system
> they run.  Imagine  not possible to upgrade the work machine from RH
> 7.2 !!

The portage change should not be big. Mainly the locations of some 
configuration files needs to be changed, and the root check removed.

>    The idea is to have a 'almost-gentoo' residing in ~/gentoo. It's
> 'almost', since all the sys-TOOLS won't be usable ( kernel, deamons
> etc. ). Also the compilers etc. can be picked from host, or from
>  gentoo--subsystem.

However, it is allmost certain that most if not all ebuilds in the tree 
will not build in a way they need to. That is given the assumption that 
the root system is similar enough to gentoo. Also some essential 
infrastructure to make this fairly easy is missing. For example 
applications now do not allow free specification of the various 
installation dirs (which should of course be somewhere in home).

> Well, I got the portage-2.0.51_pre17 tarkit, installed Python2.3,
> and tried.  By the end of day, I'm able to  emerge patch and
> ncurses.   I'm stuck in libtool problem, which I'll see tomorrow.
>
> >From this thread, I want to know if this team believes a user-mode
>
> portage is helpful to gentoo ?

It would make portage even more general purpose. You might want to look 
with the macosx people who have many issues in common with this.

>
>   Also, where is the anon repository for potrage ? the projects page
> mentions viewcvs, but not the anon.
>
It's developer only

Paul

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