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

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Grant,

I've added --noscripts to the rpm -i/-e commands so that the scripts are 
inhibited should they be present.

Regards, Stuart

Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Grant,

> > I'm more concerned about bugs in the install and post-install
> > scripts in the RPM spec files.  One presumes those are running
> > with root privledges?
>
> For the install section, it's not a problem, there's a guard at the top 
> of all spec files to prevent this, also ltib checks the actually install 
> patch for all files before it proceeds.
>
> You have a good point for the post-install sections though.  I should 
> put a check into ltib's spec file parser to disallow these.  For cross 
> compiled systems they're doomed to failure and so should not be present. 
>  I'll add this to my TODO list.