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