Re: [Ltib] Using LTIB without root privileges

[Christoph Baumann]

Hi Mike,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Mike Goins" <address@hidden>
> An: address@hidden
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Juli 2012 16:39:25
> Betreff: Re: [Ltib] Using LTIB without root privileges
> Interesting concept, so I though I would try it out. Here's what I
> did:
> 
> 1. Tool-chains and host support packages already installed.
> 2. Built and installed fakeroot-ng,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakerootng/
> 3. commented out my /etc/sudoers entry that ltib requires.
> 4. Modified ltib to use fakeroot-ng: replaced sudo => "sudo" with
> sudo => "fakeroot-ng"
> 5. If run already once as root the rpm database is owned by root,
> chown as required.
> 6. Ran ltib for one of my platform configs with --no-sudo to skip
> check.


I did some testing in that case and ran into problems.
rpm seems to fail under fakeroot-ng when called with "--initdb". Calling it as 
normal user in that case works.
But later installing the RPMs with fakeroot-ng fails as they are not unpacked. 
So the rootfs doesn't get populated. Maybe "--relocate" could help but I 
remember having read some comment that some packages aren't relocateable.


Regards,
Christoph Baumann