Re: [Ltib] non root installation

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Maxime,

Fakeroot won't solve the problem.  You only appear to be root within
that environment (e.g. normally for making packages), but you can't
actually create real files that can be exported as NFS that have root
owner or are block/char special files.

rpm already has something like fakeroot built into it which is used for
example to create the static device node rpm for the target (take a look
at dev.spec).

You need to be root to install the rpm files made by LTIB.

Regards, Stuart

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:23 +0000, maxime louvel wrote:
> 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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