[MacPorts] #18270: port distfiles shouldn't require root

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Thu Jan 29 15:24:53 PST 2009


#18270: port distfiles shouldn't require root
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
Component:  base                     |     Version:  1.7.0                                
 Keywords:                           |        Port:                                       
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Comment(by dluke@…):

 It looks like it just wants root to write the statefile (which it probably
 shouldn't need to do), so if you've been building things as non-root, it
 wouldn't need root.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18270#comment:1>
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