On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 19:06 +0200, michele braghini wrote:
> hi, I have a question:
> at the moment I'm working in developing a procedure with the purpose
> to realize the installazion of software in distributed computing
> environment.

 Ok

>  In particlar I'd need to use yum tool suite to perform rpm
> installation on a remote host with the constraight of identity (I
> should be a simple user) and rpmdb isolation.
> 
 How does this follow? What are the actual requirements?



> I tried with yum, but using new yum.conf --rootdir option error-level
> 10 and debug-level 10 always yum returns to me the message: only root
> can do this

 The short answer is "you can't do that", somewhat longer answer is at:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RunningWithoutRoot

> I'm writeing this email for a confirmation of righteness of the
> choices I got. Is it possible than yum can't run in simple user?

 I think it's unlikely that using --relocate and/or running software
installation as non-root is the right solution to the problem.

-- 
James Antill <[email protected]>
Fedora
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