On 30. 1. 2013 at 16:06:35, Mátyás Selmeci wrote: > Hi, > > 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). > > Have there been any projects with this goal in mind? > Have any of you had experience with this sort of thing and have tips, tools, > etc. that might help me out in this? > > Thanks in advance, > -Mat > -- > -Matyas Selmeci > Open Science Grid Software Team > Center for High Throughput Computing > University of Wisconsin-Madison How about using Software Collections? It doesn't solve the installataion by unprivileged user but it solves installation into non-standard location: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en- US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html Thanks Jan
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