I'd like to set up a system whereby developers, who do not have root privileges, can build and test-install binary RPMs. By making use of the --dbpath and --prefix options it looks almost doable. But now I find that a user running "rpm --install" must have write access to /var/lock/rpm. I guess I could change the permissions on that directory, but then many developers would be using the same lock file, not to mention possible conflicts with real installs on the build machine. I havent' tried using the --root option. I assume that would not work since according to the rpm man page it involves a call to chroot, and only the root user can make that system call. Does anyone know a way around this, so that a non-privileged developer could test install scripts? (This is rpm Version 4.3.3, rhel4u1.) Thanks for any help. Stowe Davison _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
