[Pkgutil-users] Using pkgutil as non-root user / user-space pkg installs?

[Garth D. <iro...@gm...>]

Hello List, 

This may have been answered already somewhere (only thing I could find was a mention of it here https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=3831#c6586 ), so I apologize in advance if these are silly questions.

My questions are: 
- Is it possible to run pkgutil from within a user's home directory using some combination of --config and -W?   (if so does anyone know of an example I can follow on the web, that shows where to put the config, what goes in ~/.pkgconfig, etc, to get a good set-up)

- Secondarily, if it doesn't what types of technical hurdles prevent this type of usage?    How much effort is involved for a mediocre Perl guy like myself to adapt it... 

The reason I ask is I've been maintaining a cobbled together home/bin dir using PATH / LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the benefit of my team -- this has meant manually downloading and pkgtrans-ing lib files from blastwave... and after spending a good deal of time trying to satisfy dependencies by hand for SVN this morning, I'm about to lose it... has to be a better way for user-space pkg installs.

Cheers,

-G