On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:08:06AM -0500, James Olin Oden wrote:
> On 11/4/05, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Akop Pogosian wrote:
> > > How am I supposed to deal with this error?
> > >
> > > # rpm -Uvh filesystem-2.2.1-3.centos.1.i386.rpm
> > > Preparing... ###########################################
> > > [100%]
> > > 1:filesystem ###########################################
> > > [100%]
> > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /home: cpio: chown failed -
> > > Operation not permitted
> > > # rpm -q filesystem
> > > package filesystem is not installed
> > > # ls -dlL /home
> > > drwxr-xr-x 301 root root 8192 Nov 2 18:25 /home
> > >
> > > /home mounted from NFS server.
> >
> > You need to allow root acess to the NFS share (ie, export with the
> > no_root_squash option).
> >
> > Or don't NFS mount /home.
> >
> Actually, what I believe will give him the desired behavior is to add
> to /etc/rpm/macros (create it if its not there):
>
> # A colon separated list of paths where files should *not* be installed.
> # Usually, these are network file system mount points.
> #
> %_netsharedpath /home
>
> As the comment from /usr/lib/rpm/macros suggests other paths can be
> added. This will cause rpm to not delive files that are in these
> directories with no error, and ass the macro name implies, this
> feature was designed for this very purpose.
This sounds like the feature I need, so I put /home and /usr/local in
that file. But now my /home and /usr/local symbolic links, which point
to NFS-mounted /misc/home and /opt/local, are removed when I convert
an RHEL 3 system into CentOS. The conversion involves the upgrade of
the "filesystem" package which has CentOS specific version. I traced
this problem down to it. I don't know if that's an intended behavior
or just a bug. Why would rpm remove paths I just told it to leave
alone?
-akop
