Re: [Ltib] Using LTIB without root privileges

[Stuart Hughes]

On 03/07/12 15:39, Mike Goins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Christoph Baumann<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to run LTIB without root privileges?
> > I see the point that at least the tool chain needs to be installed as root. But 
> > compiling for the target and building an image could theoretically be done 
> > without root privileges, isn't it?
> > Trying out LTIB I noticed that I need these right nevertheless to install RPMs 
> > for the target into the target FS.
> > Is there any feasible way to do this without sudo (e.g. fakeroot, chroot)?
> Interesting concept, so I though I would try it out.  Here's what I did:
>
> 1.  Tool-chains and host support packages already installed.
> 2.  Built and installed fakeroot-ng, http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakerootng/
> 3.  commented out my /etc/sudoers entry that ltib requires.
> 4.  Modified ltib to use fakeroot-ng: replaced  sudo  =>  "sudo" with
> sudo =>  "fakeroot-ng"
> 5.  If run already once as root the rpm database is owned by root,
> chown as required.
> 6.  Ran ltib for one of my platform configs with --no-sudo to skip check.
>
> Building now without seeing any issues.   Not done yet as it this
> platform takes about an hour to complete, but I have some new rpms and
> a rootfs under my id.  Nice.
>
> So, I decided to go re-visit #1 to see if I can install the ltib host
> rpm's and tools as a user.   Cleaned all traces of ltib from system.
> chown'd /opt as myself.  Get through rpm-fs, fake-provides, but fails
> on mkspooflinks:
>
> Build time for mkspooflinks: 3 seconds
>
> fakeroot-ng /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpm --root / --dbpath
> /opt/ltib/var/lib/rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps --noscripts --define
> '_tmppath /home/mike/tmp' mkspooflinks 2>/dev/null
> fakeroot-ng /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpm --root / --dbpath
> /opt/ltib/var/lib/rpm --prefix / --ignorearch -ivh --replacepkgs
> --replacefiles --nodeps --excludedocs --noscripts --define '_tmppath
> /home/mike/tmp'
> /opt/ltib/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/i686/mkspooflinks-3.4-4.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ##################################################
> mkspooflinks                error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> //opt: cpio: chmod failed - Operation not permitted
>
>
> Not sure of the error, but would be interesting to get full ltib under
> user id's since this may help in the long-run.
Hi Mike,

See my earlier post.  LTIB is only root during rpm install.

Regards, Stuart