On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:10:56PM +0000, Tim Cutts wrote:
What I'd actually like is some sort of non-root packaging system so
that users could build software with decent dependency checking for
their shared software infrastructure. Can dpkg be cajoled into
doing that?
I knew people who were doing this with rpm. AFAIK the only tricky part
was the pre-seeding of the RPM database with some packages that were
installed on the system level (like libc) so the dependency tracking
could work. dpkg also has a "--root ..." option, but unfortunately
dpkg
seems to check for root privileges before trying to install a
package so
it is pretty much useless.