Bug 19382

Summary:	rpm --root xxx -i fails silently if user isn't root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Fox, David <dsfox>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr
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Description Fox, David 2000-10-19 15:09:13 UTC

Because the chroot call can only work for root, when I tried to install a
package into a temporary directory as a non-priviledged user it failed to
chroot and attempted to install
into /.  RPM should probably detect this case and signal an error, or at
least check the
result code from chroot.

It is unfortunate that regular users can't do this, but I suppose that is a
complaint for whoever
decreed that chroot shall only work for root.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-07-29 18:21:45 UTC

*** Bug 11510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-30 18:22:27 UTC

Collecting rpm needs root problems at #49899.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49899 ***