apt-get install in application warden container?

[Cornelia Davis]

Hi all.

I am trying to install something into the warden container that will run my application - so far I am trying to do so through a .profile.d script. The issue is that these scripts are run as the "vcap" user and in order to run apt-get I need to be root.  I've chatted with Scott Frederick (who knows buildpacks well) and he has said that the "compile" script of the buildpack also executes as "vcap" so I'm not sure that going down the buildpack path will be fruitful.  I'm thinking about customizing the rootfs of the warden container.

Anyone solve this problem yet?

Thanks,

Cornelia

[Daniel Mikusa]

I saw these Heroku build packs the other day and have been meaning to try them. If they are compatible with CF, perhaps they would offer a solution.

https://github.com/fabiokung/heroku-buildpack-fakesu
https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/heroku-buildpack-aptitude

Dan

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[James Bayer]

cornelia, is there a reason that a buildpack can't either compile what you need or download a prebuilt binary of it? does it change often?

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Thank you,

James Bayer

[Cornelia Davis]

I'm trying to install an NFS client and the only installation instructions I've found for nfs-common are via apt-get install.  Happy to be pointed in another direction on this specific case, but I think the general requirement remains.

[Dr Nic Williams]

I think NFS client also requires root priv to run; unrelated to how it's installed :(