I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Isn't there some command line switches that tell urpmi to only download not install???
Could not the download of updates be done as a user and then su to install them manually?? Another thought: I imagine that wget is not running as root when downloading anyway, cos generally that sort of behaviour is frowned upon as not terribly safe.. so since all this stuff is perl code, you can look though and find what uid/gid wget is invoked with.. The urpmi devolopers on cooker could probably help you with that. Just some thoughts that might give you somewhere to start looking. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 16:07, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I am > behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not create a > root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the updates. How > do I do this? Can I do this? > > Thanks, > > Tony. If you can't be "su" or "root" on the machine you're working on you don't stand a chance without the sys-admin helping you. If you can't get out as root i.e. can't connect to external sites using urpmi or the packaging tool; you could always downoad the rpms to a local directory and use that as a source. Good luck, HarM
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