how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> >> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until
> >>> somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my
> >>> specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will
> >>> not run for anybody but root.
> >> 
> >> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user
> >> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing
> >> ANYTHING that's global.
> > 
> > +1
> 
> I get the feeling that Gene isn't talking about the actual installation
> of the initrd image.  I think he is wondering why something like...
> 
> mkinitrd /tmp/xxx 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE
> 
> needs root privileges to run.   Is there anything inherently wrong is
> expecting that to work?

"dracut /tmp/test.img 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64" works just fine as an 
unprivileged user

Dennis
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