Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 4:32 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?)

Made a note in the change to investigate this. What I'm seeing with
stat are ctime and/or mtime updates of the -shm and -wal files. I'm
not sure either should be changing. I'm using noatime, but I expect
atime updates probably happen with all these files normally.


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Chris Murphy
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