--with-macports-user

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:24:50PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> My non-root MacPorts 1.7.1 install was configured with
> 
> --with-install-user=rschmidt
> --with-install-group=admin
> 
> I don't use "sudo" for most operations. This gives me some assurance
> that arbitrary things on my hard drive are not being modified. I only
> use sudo to install ports that need root access, like those that have
> startup scripts, like apache2 or mysql5-server.
> 
> MacPorts trunk has a new --with-macports-user option. How am I meant
> to configure MacPorts trunk now? What should I specify for the
> macports-user? rschmidt? root? some new user I create? Will I need to
> change my habits about when I use sudo?

On trunk, for non-root installs, the --with-no-root-privileges option should
automatically set the install user and group to your current settings (it
uses id).  As for --with-macports-user, you'll want to set that to the same
user when doing non-root, as otherwise it defaults to root currently
(apparently due to the functionality having bugs still [1]).  In the future
this would be the user who would actually own the build as it happens, then
port would only set to root for the actual install.

Bryan

[1] - <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/aclocal.m4#L358>