Test in local repository without privileges

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 19, 2020, at 17:47, Dave Allured wrote:

> Is there an easy way to get macports to go through the motions of "port install -s" for a single port, using macports infrastructure, and taking port dependencies from /opt/local, but writing only inside a user directory?  This would only be for testing that port's build process, not for actually installing into the real port tree.  My now-hypothetical case is a package that fails parallel build under macports, but never fails when parallel building externally, with only autotools.  I would like to find what the differences are, to help make a simpler reproducer.

It used to be that if you did not use "sudo", then "port install ..." would write into ~/.macports instead of /opt/local/var/macports. I don't know if that's still the case. I did not appear to work when I tried it just now but maybe I have something configured differently.