On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, 19:51 GMT+02 Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
>> Would it be best to get started on RHEL3 to fetch >> ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.5/UPD/openpkg-2.5.2-2.5.2.src.sh >> and do a >> 'sh openpkg-2.5.2-2.5.2.src.sh --prefix=/openpkg --user=openpkg >> --group=openpkg'? > Yes, exactly. The provided binaries are for bootstrapping (in case > no build environment is available at all) and emergency (you have > to recreate an instance at 3am ;-) situations only. For all other > situations stick with the source RPMs. OpenPKG's focus is on those > anyway. Thank you for confirming that. I have now successfully installed openpkg-2.5.2-2.5.2 on ix86-rhel3 by just executing $ sh openpkg-2.5.2-2.5.2.src.sh --prefix=/opt/openpkg --user=openpkg --group=openpkg $ su root -c "sh openpkg-2.5.2-2.5.2.ix86-rhel3-oop.sh" which went smoothly. Very easy and well guided steps! To make things more handy, I then did # echo "alias openpkg='/opt/openpkg/bin/openpkg'" >> /etc/bashrc so I just can enter 'openpkg' instead of the full path to it when using it (takes effect after the next login). >> (...) can I completely >> uninstall OpenPKG, including removal of the new users and crontabs, by >> doing a >> '/openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm -e openpkg' >> (just in case there is a reason for that)? > Yes, of course! OpenPKG is 100% non-intrusive to the underlying OS. It > has just six small connection points (file /etc/openpkg, 3 lines in > /etc/passwd, 3 lines in /etc/group, a few lines in the root crontab, a > run-command script and the filesystem top-level directory). It does not > touch anything else in your OS and those connections points are removed > under "/openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm -e openpkg" again, too. Very good to know. For those who are interested in, I have examined these 6 connection points as follows: (1) a presence file pointing to the top-level directory of the OpenPKG instance: $ cat /etc/openpkg /opt/openpkg (2) the top-level directory of the OpenPKG instance, as indicated in (1) (3) 3 new users: # grep openpkg < /etc/passwd openpkg:x:1000:1000:/opt/openpkg OpenPKG (management):/opt/openpkg:/opt/openpkg/lib/openpkg/bash openpkg-r:x:1001:1001:/opt/openpkg OpenPKG (restricted):/opt/openpkg:/opt/openpkg/lib/openpkg/bash openpkg-n:x:1002:1002:/opt/openpkg OpenPKG (non-privileged):/opt/openpkg:/opt/openpkg/lib/openpkg/bash Question: Why do the 3 new users need openpkg's bash as their login shell? (4) 3 new groups: # grep openpkg < /etc/group openpkg:*:1000:openpkg openpkg-r:*:1001:openpkg-r openpkg-n:*:1002:openpkg-n (5) 5 entries to the root cron table: # grep '<OpenPKG' -A7 < /etc/crontab # <OpenPKG prefix=/opt/openpkg pkg=openpkg> # chronological tasks of /opt/openpkg OpenPKG hierarchy 0 0 1 * * root [ -f /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all monthly 0 0 * * 0 root [ -f /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all weekly 0 0 * * * root [ -f /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all daily 0 * * * * root [ -f /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all hourly */15 * * * * root [ -f /opt/openpkg/etc/rc ] && /opt/openpkg/etc/rc all quarterly # </OpenPKG> (6) a run-command script ??? Thank you for adding these facts and the possibility of "openpkg rpm -e `openpkg rpm -qa`" to the Installation Tutorial at http://www.openpkg.org/documentation/tutorial/ Best wishes, rob. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
