Allow non-root installs

naturalis / supersmart

Self-Updating Platform for the Estimation of Rates of Speciation, Migration And Relationships of Taxa

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Allow non-root installs #24

Closed rvosa closed 9 years ago

rvosa commented 10 years ago

As per the EL reviewer's request: it would be good if users could run puppet apply without root, e.g. all executables go in /home/supersmart/bin and we add that to the PATH.

hettling commented 10 years ago

Tools and libraries provided from source (and the SUPERSMART source) now go in the directory ~/SUPERSMART/ when provisioning with the puppet script. However, packages and the database still require root access.

rvosa commented 10 years ago

I think this is close enough for this issue. I expect that packages would be far less of a problem to install system-wide on a cluster, and likewise for running a database service (if an admin installs mysql on a cluster, we can assume that the process would also be installed as a system service). About the data itself, what do you think: put it in a non-standard location and have users specify the data dir when mysqld starts, or expect them to place them system-wide? Once that's sorted out I think we can close this issue.

rvosa commented 9 years ago

I am going to close this issue for the following reasons:

if someone, such as a reviewer, just wants to try SUPERSMART they can use the VM
if someone wants to install natively they have the puppet manifest. This works well enough except for the mysql data, which typically goes into a highly restricted folder. If people's configuration is such that they cannot add data to mysql's standard location for data then they have a problem we can't solve for them.