What is the tool you use on your distro to make packages when you don't have
root?
rpmbuild to make rpm packages but does not need root. I just have very limited deployment privs to certain directories using rpm -ivh. Also, I don't have RPM distribution list to access, so I have to use rpmrebuild tool to generate machine's rpm snapshot to a temporary directories.
On debian it is fakeroot, but there may be other tools. offcourse the
ultimate fake-root tool would be UML itself :-).
there's no easy way to have rootfs for different kind of distribution. that's bad.
As for Yum on RHEL3: that really sucks, i Tried building the srpm but got
nowhere. Why would you need RHEL and not CentOS? As far as I know they try to
be very compatible. I would not expect RHEL on UML to be supported by RH
anyway, so there is no penalty going with CentOS.
I totally agree with that. But our production environment is RHEL. So I have no choice to have a RHEL rootfs. That's really painful because I don't know what would be the complete base RPMS for RHEL. I guess if other people choose to use RHEL, how did they get a chroot env if not for uml. Or maybe there's never such a need?
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