Hi,
This may be a long shot, but I am interested in repackaging some
RPMs (for example, some of the Globus packages in EPEL, as well as
grid software that my group builds) such that the software in them
may be installed by unprivileged users, or into a non-standard
location such as an NFS share. I'd like to use existing RPMs,
preferably binaries, as a starting point to avoid duplicating work.
(Naturally a lot of post-install scripting would be needed to fix
binaries such that they'd work with the path they were installed
into).
Have there been any projects with this goal in mind?
Have any of you had experience with this sort of thing and have
tips, tools, etc. that might help me out in this?
Thanks in advance,
-Mat
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-Matyas Selmeci
Open Science Grid Software Team
Center for High Throughput Computing
University of Wisconsin-Madison