On 01/31/2013 01:13 AM, M A Young wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Mátyás Selmeci wrote:
This may be a long shot, but I am interested in repackaging some RPMs
(for
example, some of the Globus packages in EPEL, as well as grid
software that
my group builds) such that the software in them may be installed by
unprivileged users, or into a non-standard location such as an NFS
share.
I'd like to use existing RPMs, preferably binaries, as a starting
point to
avoid duplicating work. (Naturally a lot of post-install scripting
would be
needed to fix binaries such that they'd work with the path they were
installed into).
It depends want you mean by "install" but you can unpack the files in
an rpm package with rpm2cpio eg.
cd target/dir ; rpm2cpio <some.rpm | cpio -idmv
Michael Young
Yes, or similar. The basic limitation is still that writing to the
/var/lib/rpm db requires root privileges, so you can't really make a
user install managed by rpm.
--alec
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