On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Paul Mundt wrote:
> Regardless, the reason you are seeing your toplevel minicom config being
> touched is likely because you are getting -EPERM on the chroot(). For some
> reason, if rpm fails to do the chroot() to the --root path, it still continues
> on with the install silently without complaining loudly and bailing.
>
This patch against current CVS should fix that, if anyone is interested in
this behavior.
Index: lib/transaction.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/devel/rpm/lib/transaction.c,v
retrieving revision 1.301
diff -u -r1.301 transaction.c
--- lib/transaction.c 23 Nov 2003 19:50:55 -0000 1.301
+++ lib/transaction.c 13 Dec 2003 16:35:23 -0000
@@ -1124,8 +1124,13 @@
const char * rootDir = rpmtsRootDir(ts);
xx = chdir("/");
/*@-superuser -noeffect @*/
- if (rootDir != NULL)
- xx = chroot(rootDir);
+ if (rootDir != NULL) {
+ if ((xx = chroot(rootDir)) != 0) {
+ perror("chroot");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ }
+
/*@=superuser =noeffect @*/
(void) rpmtsSetChrootDone(ts, 1);
}
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