how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/18/2010 09:52 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Yes...  I was going to point out that dracut supersedes mkinitrd.

Thanks for bringing that up.

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