On 30. 1. 2013 at 16:06:35, Mátyás Selmeci wrote:
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
How about using Software Collections? It doesn't solve the installataion by
unprivileged user but it solves installation into non-standard location:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-
US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html
Thanks
Jan