Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm --root doesn't work or I am doing something wrong?
Did you init the rpm database inside the --root? 2008/3/7, Neo Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, sorry, I don't find any other mailing list to submit my questions. I am trying to setup a build root so I need to install rpm package to a different root directory. rpm --root=/home/cjia/workareas/rpm_root/fc8_root/ -ivh setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm warning: setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Preparing...### [100%] 1:setup ### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/aliases;47d1b91c: cpio: open failed - Permission denied Why it is still trying to write to /etc/... ? Thanks, Neo -- I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious probably today we haven't the technology we are using! ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm --root doesn't work or I am doing something wrong?
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Pixel wrote: Neo Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, sorry, I don't find any other mailing list to submit my questions. I am trying to setup a build root so I need to install rpm package to a different root directory. rpm --root=/home/cjia/workareas/rpm_root/fc8_root/ -ivh setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm warning: setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Preparing...### [100%] 1:setup ### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/aliases;47d1b91c: cpio: open failed - Permission denied Why it is still trying to write to /etc/... ? i must be because chroot(2) failed... without an error message. you must be root to use rpm --root Yup, and it's also a bug in rpm that it doesn't give any indication that chroot() failed. - Panu - ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm --root doesn't work or I am doing something wrong?
I remember that I can do this without being root on FC3. Thanks, Neo On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Panu Matilainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Pixel wrote: Neo Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, sorry, I don't find any other mailing list to submit my questions. I am trying to setup a build root so I need to install rpm package to a different root directory. rpm --root=/home/cjia/workareas/rpm_root/fc8_root/ -ivh setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm warning: setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Preparing...### [100%] 1:setup ### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/aliases;47d1b91c: cpio: open failed - Permission denied Why it is still trying to write to /etc/... ? i must be because chroot(2) failed... without an error message. you must be root to use rpm --root Yup, and it's also a bug in rpm that it doesn't give any indication that chroot() failed. - Panu - -- I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious probably today we haven't the technology we are using! ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm --root doesn't work or I am doing something wrong?
2008/3/7, Neo Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rpm --root=/home/cjia/workareas/rpm_root/fc8_root/ -ivh setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm warning: setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Preparing...### [100%] 1:setup ### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/aliases;47d1b91c: cpio: open failed - Permission denied Why it is still trying to write to /etc/... ? Did you init the rpm database inside the --root? BR, Marcin Rybak http://marti.dimerge.net/ ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
