[MacPorts] #30071: dbus cannot install without root privileges

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Thu Jul 7 12:11:45 PDT 2011


#30071: dbus cannot install without root privileges
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 Reporter:  etlverified@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.9.2                                
 Keywords:                         |        Port:                                       
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 I have installed macports without root privileges by configuring it with
 "--with-no-root-privileges --with-install-user=$USER". This is an
 important use case; a number of developers at my company use macports this
 way (no root access).

 I've found that a large number of useful packages depend on dbus (e.g.
 qt4-mac), which fails to install without root privileges:


 --->  Activating dbus @1.4.12_0
 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: error copying
 "/Users/etl/macports/var/macports/software/dbus/1.4.12_0/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop
 .dbus-session.plist" to "/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-
 session.plist": permission denied
 Error: Failed to install dbus

 Could you please make the dbus port somehow install when macports is not
 configured for root access? Something like qt4-mac is just a library; it
 shouldn't need administrator privileges to be installed. Similarly, pretty
 much every app from the GNOME desktop depends on dbus.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30071>
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