Two bug per day. yum and rpm fail to install packages of the root filesystem is NFS (NFS-Root). no combination of magic rpm switches seem to overcome the failure...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1430891 [root@lxdaq23 ~]# rpm -vh --upgrade --force iputils-20160308-8.el7.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:iputils-20160308-8.el7 ################################# [ 50%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/ping;58c1a725: cpio: cap_set_file failed - Operation not supported error: iputils-20160308-8.el7.x86_64: install failed error: iputils-20121221-7.el7.x86_64: erase skipped [root@lxdaq23 ~]# rpm -q iputils iputils-20121221-7.el7.x86_64 And yes, it is true, NFSv3 and NFSv4 do not seem to support xattr required for cap_set_file... Have the "the world of my laptop" people just obsoleted NFS-Root?!? -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
