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

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Garth Dahlstrom <iro...@gm...> wrote:
> 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)

What version are you using? Since 2.0 pkgutil can use ~/.pkgutil as
work directory if you're not root and don't use -W to specify another
work directory. Note that this only replaces the normal
/var/opt/csw/pkgutil, configuration is still pulled from /opt/csw/etc
and /etc/opt/csw (and from command line if specified) unless you
specify another location with --config.

But the main problem I suspect is that Sun's package tools don't allow
for much without being root.

Please respond to this first and we'll try to get through all
questions step by step.

/peter