On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:28:05 -0800, Ian D. Scott wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 08:12:12PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > In the past I sometimes had no reason _not_ to run makepkg as root, > > when I wanted to compile from ABS, located in /var/abs/. I'm aware > > about the drawback, that actually isn't relevant for my kind of > > computer usage + several available backups. However, indeed, for my > > needs non-root 100% does do the job too. No, I won't copy from ABS > > to some user dir, I simply will chown or chmod in a way the big > > teachers won't us to act self-responsible (I simply ignored the > > kindergarten flame-war like posts). JFTR my machine isn't a server > > or a terrorist top secret whatsoever machine. It's a digital audio > > workstation and there are several, individual, complete backups > > available for each month. > > ABSROOT=~/abs abs > > You can set ABSROOT in your bashrc or zshrc. Oops :D. My apologies :). Thank you, fair play :D. I'll test it soon. Regards, Ralf
