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 _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
