[Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-bugs] #427: Teach chicken-setup to sudo when installing

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#427: Teach chicken-setup to sudo when installing
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 Reporter:  John Cowan <address@hidden>  |        Type:  defect       
   Status:  new                          |    Priority:  minor        
Milestone:                               |   Component:  chicken-setup
  Version:  3.0.0                        |    Keywords:               
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 This is halfway between a defect and an enhancement.

 Currently, the safe way to install eggs on Unix systems is "chicken-setup
 -n eggname; sudo chicken-setup install eggname; rm -rf eggname.egg eggname
 .egg-dir".  Doing the default thing, "chicken-setup eggname", fails when
 trying to install into /usr/local/lib and possibly other places; the
 simplest modification, "sudo chicken-setup eggname", involves running
 Chicken as root, which the prudent sysadmin will be unwilling to do.

 The best thing IMHO is to teach chicken-setup how to sudo before doing its
 install phase; depending on the system, this might be "sudo whatever", "su
 root -c 'whatever'", or no change at all (on Windows, or if no root access
 is needed for the current Chicken repository).  I'm cc-ing chicken-
 hackers, on the assumption that people might wish to discuss this.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/427>
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