[Ltib] Re: Ltib Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

[hong zhang]

List,

I am using Ltib for freescale imx31. After turnning on
DirectFB and DirectFB-examples, they are located in
ltib/rpm/BUILD. Does it mean all user space
application packages will sit ltib/rpm/BUILD?

---henry


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> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:29:19 +0200
> From: Harald Dunkel <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Ltib] to be root or not to be root?
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> Hi folks,
> 
> For fun I tried ltib on my Debian host today. I was
> told
> (http://www.bitshrine.org/) that it doesn't need
> root, but
> first thing it did was complaing about missing sudo,
> and
> next it claimed to need root permission without
> password(!)
> to run rpm. That rang all alarm bells.
> 
> What is the story here? Will it put my root
> partition at
> risk by installing foreign RPMs? Is there some way
> to use
> fakeroot instead?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Harri
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:00:20 +0100
> From: Stuart Hughes <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Ltib] to be root or not to be root?
> To: Harald Dunkel <address@hidden>
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> Hi Harri,
> 
> LTIB only runs using root permissions during the
> actual install phase of
> an rpm.  During builds and any other time it is just
> the normal user.
> 
> We need root permissions during the package
> installation as it is
> creating a real root filesystem under rootfs to be
> mounted etc by the
> booting target.  This needs root permissions, no way
> around it.
> 
> However, if you look at the package spec files (the
> %pfx) and at the
> ltib code itself I go to great lengths to make sure
> that even errant
> package should not be able to scribble over your
> normal system
> directories (see check_host_clobber line 2395 in
> ltib). 
> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:29 +0200, Harald Dunkel
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > For fun I tried ltib on my Debian host today. I
> was told
> > (http://www.bitshrine.org/) that it doesn't need
> root, but
> > first thing it did was complaing about missing
> sudo, and
> > next it claimed to need root permission without
> password(!)
> > to run rpm. That rang all alarm bells.
> > 
> > What is the story here? Will it put my root
> partition at
> > risk by installing foreign RPMs? Is there some way
> to use
> > fakeroot instead?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Harri
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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