On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm hoping to use pkgutil and OpenCSW is a rather locked-down environment, > where we do not have root access to the boxes.
I'm sorry to say but I think you will have little success with this. :( Is there really no other option like having the sysadmin do installs for you, have your own zone or something? Or get specific sudo access? > Basically, I need to run pkgutil as a normal user, and have it install all > packages/libraries into it's own prefix (we do have a common directory which > we have ownership of). > Are there any notes or tricks we could use to achieve this? I couldn't seem > to find anything on the wiki, and the nearest thing I could find was an old > blog post from 2009, which involves simply extracting Solaris SVR4 packages, > not quite what I wanted: > http://blogs.oracle.com/LetTheSunShineIn/entry/non_root_install_of_blastwave > 1. Getting pkg-util > The first step is to get pkgutil. I have version 2.4 downloaded from here: > http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental/bonivart/pkgutil-2.4,REV=2011.06.29-SunOS5.9-all-CSW.pkg > Since I don't have root access, I simply ran pkgtrans to get the actual > files. I can run the pkgutil perl script itself, however I'm not sure what > to do with the other required files in the archive (e.g. admin, etc, > wget-i386/sparc etc.). > How should I install properly pkg-util to run as non-root under a specific > prefix (e.g. /my_prefix/)? Take a look here how the files are laid out: http://www.opencsw.org/search/pkgutil/. But it's only the admin file that is important. By default if you're running pkgutil as non-root it will create a ~/.pkgutil directory for the catalog, admin file and so on. If you already have wget somewhere you don't need the included one, it's just a last resort. Most options can be set on the command line (every option with the --param option) but if you want a config file you can put it anywhere and call it with --config. > 2. Running pkg-util > > I saw it mentioned here, for version 2.0 of pkgutil that it has non-root > abilities, but I'm not sure how to trigger this: > http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/release-history#toc4 > What's the best way of running pkg-util as non-root, and having it install > into our own prefix? The problem is not pkgutil itself, it's that the Solaris pkg tools (pkgadd/pkgrm and so on) are root-only when they modify stuff. So the only things pkgutil can do as non-root are catalog related (like pkgutil -a) and pure info commands like the ones calling pkginfo. The other problem is that the packages themselves usually are not relocatable. > 3. Local OpenCSW Mirror > The other issue is that we don't have direct access from these machines to > the internet (due to firewalling). > What steps would I take to setup our own local OpenCSW mirror within our > network (we probably can guess root access to this machine, assuming it > doesn't have to be Solaris, and setup a webserver of our choice), and how > should we go about pointing our pkg-util utility at this instance? First you need to rsync from an official mirror, it's described on www.opencsw.org/mirrors, then you just set your mirror options in pkgutil.conf to point to your web server. You can also use the file:// protocol if it's an NFS share. mirror=http://yourwebserver/csw mirror=file:///cswshare /peter _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
