Bug 265583

Summary:	portage should have the ability to configure the 'superuser' at runtime
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrei Slavoiu <ansla80>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrei Slavoiu 2009-04-09 21:49:17 UTC

On a gentoo machine I have a second ROOT where I want to give a regular user the ability to install packages. I know there is a config option for portage to change the root usr, but since I use the same portage as for my main ROOT I can not use this.
What would be best is to have an option in make.conf, say PORTAGE_SUPERUSER=<username> that defaults to 'root' if not explicitly specified.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-04-09 21:58:39 UTC

You may be interested in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ - Seems like this project aligns with your goals, unpriveledged and offset.

Comment 2 Andrei Slavoiu 2009-04-09 23:33:30 UTC

I'm aware of the "Gentoo Prefix" project, but I don't think it would work for me, the ROOT that I want to be managed by a regular user is used for crosscompiling, using crossdev-wrappers.

Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2009-04-10 08:04:01 UTC

anywayz, zmedico if you look into this, please also consider the Prefix code, such that we eventually can both share the same code.