Tom Mueller (plain-text) wrote:
Note that this is not necessarily a case of bad packaging. For the OS
case it is. But when installing into a user-image as a privileged user
(one that can create users), a response to this error case is that you
run useradd and then do the install again. So it is important in that
case that the image not be corrupted by a partially installed package.
Hmmm.
This implies much more user intervention than I feel comfortable with...
and requires that the various user images being installed on the system
have a consistent view of uid/gid mappings.
The user image case has had little work done in terms of overall design
write-ups.
There seem to be several use cases here; one is the ability for
non-priv. users to install software, another is the ability for
priv. users to create multiple instances of otherwise
colocated (and presumably relocatable) software.
I'd like to at least get a small writeup on user image goals/design
before this goes back.
- Bart
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