seth vidal wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 00:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
User (as opposed to administrator) installs in their home directories. I
could run say Mozilla Firefox extracted from a tarball but having a
similar capability in RPM itself would be nice.
RPM should also recognize and use library files I have installed through
other means.
-ENOTSANE
It does not make sense to have rpm chase down paths which may or may not
be available at any given time. Let alone be able to maintain and verify
them. (think security updates)
It's worse than that. If you look carefully at his example, firefox,
you'll notice this:
$ eu-readelf -d /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/firefox-bin | grep RPATH
RPATH Library rpath: [/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3]
Which means if you want it installed in a home directory, you have to
modify all the binaries to look in a different path than they normally
would -- rpath would need to point at something like
~pjones/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3 .
If we're want to support something like this, the way to do it would be
something like per-user unionfs namespaces. We'd still need some rpm
help (it'd need to remap file ownership during installation, at the very
least), but mostly the work isn't within rpm's scope.
--
Peter
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