Re: installing a package a *second* time with a relative root?

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>  i've never tried this before so i thought i'd ask before i totally
> screwed things up.  i want to update a tutorial i wrote about how to
> build your first kernel module, and part of that requires building the
> module against the relevant parts of a kernel source tree.
>
>  in fedora, that would be kernel-devel, but that package normally
> installs under /usr/src and i wanted to explain how to at least
> *build* the module without needing root permission.  (of course,
> they'd need root to *load* the module but ignore that for now.)
>
>  i already have kernel-devel installed *normally* on my system.  is
> there any way a regular user could install the same directory
> structure under their home directory, then pass that directory name to
> the module compile step?
>
>  of course, one could always just extract the rpm contents with
> rpm2cpio, which wouldn't affect the current yum database.  I'm
> starting to think that's the easiest thing to do here, but i'm willing
> to be educated.

yes, rpm2cpio would be the best way.


thanks,
-sv

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