[Ltib] How to use LTIB w/o root?

[Daniel Widyanto]

I agree with you. 

The current LTIB uses root account to keep the cross-toolchain, downloaded 
package, git scripts, etc at /opt. I'm running it under Ubuntu with sudo, so 
its root privilege is quite limited to /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpm and /usr/bin/rpm 
command.

The good thing is that you can run VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) to 
run Ubuntu/Fedora on Windows (or Linux). I've tried that, and works on me.

Regards,
-daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Grant Edwards
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:46 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Ltib] How to use LTIB w/o root?


I'm attempting to get a Freescale MPC8313 eval board up running
a test application. LTIB appears to be the only linux
distro/framework supported by Freescale, so I downloaded LTIB
from Freescale. During installation it demands that it be
able to run RPM commands as root.

Perhaps I'm overly cautious, but that's just not kosher.

None of the other embedded linux build systems I've used (e.g.
uclinux-dist, OE) required root privledges to do builds. I'm
not partcularly comfortable granting root access to Freescale
just to evaluate one of their products.

Am I going to have to set up a virtual machine just for running
LTIB?

-- 
Grant Edwards