Hi everyone,
I'm just writing a test for a script which uses dpkg --add-architecture. For
running the test, i dont want to use root priviledges since i dont want to
potentially ruin my host system.
I discovered that there is a --root parameter for this, which enables me to do
this in a different directory than /. Running dpkg --root=<my test directory>
--add-architecture runs also without root and adds a entry in <my test
directory>/var/lib/dpkg/arch as expected.
But now the problem. Since --root does not shift the configuration directory
from /etc/dpkg to <my test directory>/etc/dpkg always my host dpkg
configuration is used. But since my host dpkg configuration contains hooks
which are run after --add-architecture which require root I see always errors
while running dpkg --root as a non-root user. Further I did not find a
possibility (which does not require root) to disable the running of the hooks
(like a command line parameter to dpkg) or switching the configuration
directory.
I thought about following solutions of this problem:
1.
Make --root also change configuration directory to <rootdir>/etc/dpkg.
*
PRO: Makes dpkg --root easier to use, make it as non-root independent of the
host dpkg configuration
*
CON: Changes the semantics of --root, might break scripts
2.
Add a --configdir Option to switch configdir to <rootdir>/etc/dpkg.
*
PRO: does not change existing options
*
CON: {inst, admin}dir are switched with --root but not --configdir
3.
Combine 1 & 2: Make --root also change configuration directory to
<rootdir>/etc/dpkg, and add a --configdir Option to switch configdir
to<rootdir>/etc/dpkg
*
PRO: {inst, admin,config}dir are switched with --root which would be more
consistent and --configdir matches the pattern of the {inst, admin}dir
*
CON: Changes the semantics of --root, might break scripts
4.
Add an option to skip the hooks
*
PRO: Should break nothing since its added on top, should be simple to implement
*
CON: Solves the problem only half since the rest of the host dpkg configuration
is still used
What do you think about this problem? Or have i just missed something and its
already possible with a command line parameter i didn't found. Would be also ok
for me đŸ˜‰.
Since i got experience in C i can help/do the proposed implementations.
Greetings,
André
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