Re: Install with other user different that root

[Yannick Patois <patois calvix org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:16:30PM +0200, Yannick Patois wrote:
> > What I would really like to see from RPM is the ability to install some
> > packages as user, for herself.
> 	rpm2cpio foo*.rpm | cpio -dim

That I have alreday done when needed. But you may understand that if I
prefer to use a package system to manage my software that is probably
because I found some advantages over tar.gz....

> Because tar.gz file have no database attached, nor do they have dependencies.

Indeed...

> > extension of RPM allowing to open a database in read-only (the master one)
> > for dependancies and another local one in read write (the one for a user)
> Anyone can already open the database read-only for dependencies and
> such. What's happening is that install modes open read-write for obvious
> reasons.

Not *that* obvious. When compiling a source in user mode, the configure
can check the avability of some dependancy in /usr and use it without
having to have write access to this directory...

Just supose that one could do the same with RPMs: validate dependancies
agains the main db and write in a local one at the same time while
installing locally.

It appends sometime that I want to install a proprietary package. I
probably dont trust such a thing enough to install it as root... That
would be very cool to have some root, eg, /usr/local/untrusted, where I
could install everything I want as user in a local db, while dependancies
being checked in both local and global db...

Maybe it's a bit too complex to do with RPMs, but that would be
interesting...

	Yannick