CHANGES:

  My version of pkgmk has a few changes:

  * You don't have to build packages as root anymore, it won't
    even work. This is a very good security feature.

    To make this work right pkgmk will now use /usr/pkgmk as the
    workdir.

  * pkgmk doesn't error out if it finds a mismatch in the md5sum
    or the footprint, it asks you what to do.

  * The PKGMK_KEEP_ON_ERROR=yes option will keep pkgmk from
    removing the builddir if an error occured, for debugging
    purposes.

  * The -s or --short-circuit option skips the unpacking of the
    source and other steps so you can finish a build where you
    left it. Very practical if you just build mozilla and you
    notice you forgot the permissions of one file.
    If you comment out lines in the Pkgfile at least keep one
    command.
    And don't forget to use the -kw option.

  * The -up or --update-port option is a macro. First it checks if
    your $EDITOR env. var. is set, then it removes all source-
    files, edits the Pkgmk file with $EDITOR and then attempts to
    upgrade the package. This is a usefull macro for packagebuild-
    ers.

  * I added support for partial downloads.

  * A few changes that make the pkgmk script more efficient.


INSTALLATION:

  You have to change the ownership of the builddirectory to your
  useraccount.

      chown -R username:users /usr/pkgmk

  Also add this to your /etc/pkgadd.conf:

      UPGRADE         ^usr/pkgmk/.*$          NO


USING SUDO:

  To make pkgmk still be able to install and update packages you
  will have to add the following line to your sudoers file with
  the command /usr/sbin/visudo

    username ALL=PASSWD:/usr/bin/pkgadd, /usr/bin/pkgrm

  If you don't want sudo to ask for your password add a line like this:

    username ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/pkgadd, /usr/bin/pkgrm

  After that you can add packages with for example:

    sudo pkgadd -u /usr/pkgmk/package*


OTHER PROGRAMS:

  * ports is another program which requires root permissions by
    default. I recommend you use the ports version included in my
    tree.

    With this command you can change the ownership of the
    ports-tree to your own account:

      chown -R username:users /usr/ports


  * prt-get doesn't require root to work either. It's very easy to
    make it use sudo for adding packages. Add this line to your
    /etc/prt-get.conf:

      addcommand         sudo pkgadd
      removecommand      sudo pkgrm
      runscriptcommand   sudo /usr/local/bin/ask_prepost

    Is what my prt-get.conf looks like.


SOME PORTS REALLY NEED ROOT:

  It may happen you find a package which really requires root to
  be build; for example the procps package runs ldconfig during
  install. This is IMHO an error in the package. The whole idea of
  doing a _fake_ install is that it doesn't touch _any_ file on
  the live filesystem.

  You can find a modified version of the procps package in my
  repository. Please send the author of such a package a request
  to modify his package and send me a CC:

  In the odd case your package really really needs root permis-
  sions to be build there is the -rb option.

TODO:

  * Add an option to disable interactiveness for automated script
    usage.

BUGS:

  If you think you found a bug please read this document

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

  Before you send me all the details.