From cf1faa23f35ff27283ce9dad6675ca58b709e76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:55:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add notes on running g-pypi as a regular user to README. --- README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 2aecafe..8e1e92d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -107,6 +107,18 @@ Dependencies * yolk +Permisions +========== + +To run ``g-pypi`` without portage permissions, you can try something like + + DISTDIR=/tmp PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp g-pypi -Y ~/my/overlay + +Which will do all the requisite mucking about in the :file:`/tmp` +directory, which your average user can write to. Note that you *will* +need to be part of the ``portage`` group. I'm not sure how to work +around that yet. + Subversion ========== -- 2.26.2