tomcat: who should be allowed to install/upgrade or remove the binary package?

2005-09-21 Thread Andreas Schmidt
i just tried to install tomcat-adapter-5.5.11-20050822.src.rpm from current. rebuilding the binary packages as the openpkg instance's manager-user worked just fine, but when i tried to install the binary package i got the following error: error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed -

Re: tomcat: who should be allowed to install/upgrade or remove the binary package?

2005-09-21 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Andreas Schmidt wrote: i just tried to install tomcat-adapter-5.5.11-20050822.src.rpm from current. rebuilding the binary packages as the openpkg instance's manager-user worked just fine, but when i tried to install the binary package i got the following error: error:

Re: tomcat: who should be allowed to install/upgrade or remove the binary package?

2005-09-21 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Andreas Schmidt wrote: [...] but this leads to my questions: shouldn't the instance-manager-account be allowed to install new packages? otherwise i see no possiblity to make individual users their private openpkg

Re: tomcat: who should be allowed to install/upgrade or remove the binary package?

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Schug
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: Would it be possible to use the same user/group for all OpenPKG users/groups in such a scenario ? Yes, this is the way to go. As long as packages don't insist to run with special privs there's no problem at all.You can even ran some daemon process