Re: [Ltib] non root installation

[maxime louvel]

Dear Stuart,

thanks for your answer.

If I have well understood the fakeroot command allow to solve those of problem (rpm installation)
doesn't it ?
Do you still think this is impossible ?

regards,
Maxime

On 2/7/08, Stuart Hughes <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Maxime,

You can't do this unless you install some kind of fancy emulated
environment, or a virtual machine.

Note: LTIB only runs as root at the point it installs RPMs.  It needs to
do this so that the NFS rootfs image are has the files correctly
installed with the right permissions/owners and also that any special
files (/dev) can be installed.

Regards, Stuart

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:49 +0000, maxime louvel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install ltib on a server where I can't get a root
> access.
> It has seemed feasible to me to do that with the fakeroot command and
> some script modifications.
> I have changed the bdir directory in the ltib script  (from /opt
> to /home/maxime/opt) and remove the check_sudo call.
>
> Among that I have tried a few other things that seem less relevant but
> none has worked.
> My first question is do you know if it is possible to do what I want ?
> If yes how ?
>
> It seems to that their is somewhere some absolute reference to
> the /opt directory.
> Of course as a normal user I can't write anything on this directory...
>
> thanks,
> Maxime
>
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