Bart,The user image goals/design are in the bug report in comment 18 and following. Both of the use cases you mention below are included in this design. I added comment 23 to further elaborate on the design.
Tom Bart Smaalders wrote:
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 forpriv. 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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