We like to distribute our software packages using RPM, but some of our users cannot install RPMs are root. For these cases, we have resorted to relocating the RPMs (as a non-root user). So we do something like:
bash$ tar -C /var/lib -cf rpm | tar xf -
bash$ rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --prefix `pwd` -i *.rpm
In general, aside from a few details, this has worked well. However, it seems as though this is now broken by the transaction system introduced with RPM 4.3.*. Looking at rpmlock.c it looks like there is no way to direct RPM to look anywhere besides /var/lock/rpm/transaction.
Perhaps I'm wrong. I would have certainly expected this to have arisen before now.
Could anyone suggest how I can allow ordinary users to install RPMs with RPM 4.3.*?
thanks very much,
Darrell Schiebel
drs@xxxxxxxx
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/
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