Non-Root package management

Package Management convenience without root access, can it be done ?

• google:non-root yum
• google:non-root package management yum rpm
• http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RunningWithoutRoot
• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5535/non-root-package-managers

RPM background

• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html

RPM configuration via release pkg

The equivalent of redhat-release package on ordinary redhat appears to be sl-release on Scientific Linux machines.

[blyth@belle7 ~]$ sudo yum --enablerepo=epel search sl-release
sl-release.i386 : Scientific Linux release file
sl-release-notes.noarch : Scientific Linux release notes files

[blyth@belle7 ~]$ rpm -ql sl-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-atrpms
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dag
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dries
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-rhx
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-wiesand
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/sysconfig/rhn
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
/usr/share/doc/sl-release-5.1
/usr/share/doc/sl-release-5.1/GPL
/usr/share/doc/sl-release-5.1/autorun-template
/usr/share/sl-release/default-bookmarks.html

chroot jail

• google:yum chroot jail example
• http://geek.co.il/2010/03/14/how-to-build-a-chroot-jail-environment-for-centos
• http://prefetch.net/articles/yumchrootlinux.html

mock -r configname

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds#Using_mock_as_a_chroot_sandbox_tool
• http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html-single/Packagers_Guide/index.html

Mock can be used to create chroots for testing things, not just building packages. Create a config file that points to the repo(s) of your choice, where your test packages are

mock -r <config-name> --init
mock -r <config-name> --install <your packages>
mock -r <config-name> --shell

Why use mock to shell, why not chroot directly?

• Using mock to “shell” will allow mock to create the mountpoints you’ll probably need inside the chroot.

Nix

• http://nixos.org/nix/

Zero Install

• http://0install.net/