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archuser

Member

From: Northamptonshire, UK

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 122

Can't use ABS as normal user.

I used makepkg as a normal user and it told me I needed fakeroot in order to get access to certain libraries; so I installed it. But I still can't use makepkg as a normal user because everytime it goes to download the source it says 'access denied'; so I have to build it as root, which I believe is something I shouldn't be doing.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

Don't build in ABS source tree, just copy the files elsewhere (where your user has write access).

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

or do as me: build it as sudo

sudo makepkg

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

Best to do it somewhere in your $HOME.

archuser

Member

From: Northamptonshire, UK

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 122

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

aah. My fault. local doesn't have write permissions for others. Such a trivial mistake. DOH!

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detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

To keep things in /var/abs i've somewhat followed an ABS tutorial here in forum.

1) create ABS group: "groupadd abs"
2) add your user to it: "gpasswd -a <user> abs"
3) change /var/abs/local group: "chown root.abs /var/abs/local"
4) change permission, too: "chmod 775 /var/abs/local"

Finally, log out and in to recognize in new group, and from now on you can copy package things in /var/abs/local and create there your packages

stonecrest

Member

From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Can't use ABS as normal user.

You can also edit /etc/abs/abs.conf to use something like:
[ "$ABSROOT" = "" ] && ABSROOT="/home/user/.abs"

(Note that you'll have to create the ~/.abs directory too)

No more permission worries then

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