On Sunday June 13 2010 02:06:12 pm Michael DeLuca wrote: > >From the readme: > > "A two user package/file management system was found to be the most > practical solution. This means new packages are installed by an > admin-helper. The package's installed files are recorded, and the > ownership is changed to the admin. This stops new packages from > overwriting the files of another package, allows us to catalog > installed package files (so ownership can be reverted for upgrades), > and disallows root from modifying them without the FOWNER capability. > A multi-user package management system (such as the > more_control_and_pkg_man.txt LFS hint) was found to be overly > complicated, and has no advantage over the two user system." > > I'm interested in implementing a system like this. I looked at the > referenced hint and found it complicated. I get the basics. > > - Install a package via user other then admin > - Record the files it installed > - Change the ownership of those files to admin > > But... > > - How would you set up the filesystem to allow this to work? > -- Put the sticky bit on all directory's and have them owned by a > group that the admin and admin-helper groups are able to write to? > > Any help and/or hints to get me going in the right direction would be > great!
When I tried this I let the non-admin user own the directories. This way 'install -d' and 'mkdir' will work during make install. robert
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