I sometimes have to use remote systems that I don’t have root access to. I often find that I need to install packages in my home directory, so either I build from source or copy over my own pre-compiled versions.
Recently I’ve found out about pkgsrc. I’m looking for opinions from anyone who has used it to install packages without root access. Any feedback is useful!
What packages in particular? I have seen people use https://asdf-vm.com/ for what you are asking for installing tools like kubectl/helm/terraform in their home dir as a user.
My current work uses pkgsrc and it seems more designed for making firmware images. We are trying to get off of pkgsrc as it has us locked into running rhel 7 currently.
Shell tools, mostly. For example: ripgrep, nnn, or newer versions or vim or tmux.
Does pkgsrc need RHEL 7? If so, I wouldn’t be able to use it.
It doesn’t need rhel 7, our issue is that we compiled it on rhel 7 and then built apps that link against that compiled version, and since it has hard links to packages at rhel 7 versions. So we are a bit stuck on rhel 7 until we get off of it completely.
@TwinTurbo why not choose Nix or Guix ?
I don’t have experice with either of those. Are they suitable for the use case in my post?
