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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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Noob question (permission)

I want to install a few things from the AUR and I wanted to use /var/abs/local as the build directory. How can I change the permissions on that directory so that I can build there without using root?

Do most people use /var/abs/local as a build directory for AUR? I only want to because /var is a reiserfs partition.

INCSlayer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: Noob question (permission)

i would recommend that you instead as root create a folder in /var/abs/local/ named builds or something and then use chown on it so:
su root
cd /var/abs/local
mkdir builds
chown username:usergroup builds
exit

of course as i said you dont have to name it builds thats just a example

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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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Re: Noob question (permission)

Okay, thank you.

One more silly question.

I've already built and installed things from /var/abs/local. If I move all the junk I have in there to /var/abs/local/builds, it wont hurt anything that's already installed right? It's just some tarballs and source directories, so I don't think it matters...