On Monday, 05 April 2004, at 17:29:52 (-0400), James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > It seems parts of the binary installer and a large chunk of the > install scripts put things in /etc, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, and make > some /dev entries. Is it possible to make the installer run in a > chrooted environment so I can capture all of this? If so, how do I > refer to all the necessary files (rpm support files & dirs) that are > outside of the chroot? I don't want to have to do it that way > because chroot requires root, and we all know root rpm builds are > bad. I'm just running out of options here. Mezzanine (www.kainx.org/mezzanine/) simplifies this task quite a bit. After installing it, run the following command (making obvious replacements where needed) as root: mzbuild -r /path/to/chroot/jail -u nonprivuser somepackage.src.rpm That'll do ya. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Et elle m'a dit, 'Tombe, tombe au fond de mon coeur. Les nuits sont trop longues, et j'ai un peu peur.' Et c'est comme ca qu'elle est entree dans ma vie, la fille de pluie." -- Roch Voisine _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
