On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:00:06PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 29/12/2021 18:47, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >If /usr really is read-only, then it probably doesn't matter where > >the rpmdb is, since packages can't be installed (generally). > > dnf opens these database files for writing, even for the simple `dnf list`. If so this is definitely a bug. (However "dnf list" and "dnf download" seem to work as non-root, so I guess it must fall back to read-only?) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
