User build ports

How to build ports as a user on FreeBSD.

For example you can build ports from a committer account on "freefall" and related machines by setting a couple of lines in your ".profile".

Only your user home directory needs to be writeable.
You can build most ports and their dependencies.
The home can be shared between different archs.
Successful build packages are cached.
dependency to the installed "pkg" is lifted.

The PREFIX path I suggest is "/home/<user>/local-<arch>"

.profile

   1 # .profile
   2 
   3 # PREFIX will be /home/<user>/local-<arch>
   4 export UNAMEM=`uname -m`
   5 export LOCALBASE=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}
   6 export X11BASE=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}
   7 export PKG_DBDIR=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/var.db.pk
   8 export PACKAGES=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/packages
   9 export __MAKE_CONF=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/etc/make.conf
  10 export PORT_DBDIR=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/options
  11 
  12 # Extend path so we can run dependent programs
  13 export PATH=${HOME}/bin:${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/bin:${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/sbin:${PATH}
  14 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/lib
  15 export LD_RUN_PATH=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/lib
  16 
  17 # Tell Makefile who owns it all
  18 export INSTALL_AS_USER=yes
  19 export WHOAMI=`whoami`
  20 export BINOWN=${WHOAMI}
  21 export BINGRP=${WHOAMI}
  22 export MANOWN=${WHOAMI}
  23 export MANGRP=${WHOAMI}
  24 
  25 # ranlib on readonly libs don't work
  26 export SHAREMODE=644
  27 
  28 # ldconfig must write, so we change the options
  29 export LDCONFIG="/sbin/ldconfig -i -f ${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/etc/ldconfig.hints"
  30 
  31 # The place for cached distfiles shared, with all archs
  32 export DISTDIR=${HOME}/distfiles
  33 
  34 # Decide where temp build stuff
  35 export WRKDIRPREFIX=${HOME}/work
  36 
  37 # Finally we may use our own ports tree
  38 export PORTSDIR=${HOME}/ports
  39 
  40 # We like to cache and save the packages
  41 export USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS="yes"
  42 export DEPENDS_SHOW_FLAVOR="yes"
  43 export DEPENDS_TARGET="package install"
  44 
  45 # We use the installed pkg, but do not depend on it
  46 export PKG_DEPENDS=
  47 export PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local
  48 export PKG_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/pkg-static

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