On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Christof Pintaske wrote: > Hi, > > my name is Christof Pintaske, I'm employed by Sun Microsystems, working > on OpenOffice.org in general, and specifically on deploying it as an rpm. > > We face a problem with rpm 4.3.x in that the transaction locking does > try to lock the file /var/lock/rpm/transaction regardless of the dbpath > or any prefix. In fact rpmlock_new() from rpm/lib/rpmlock.c takes a > "rootdir" as an argument, however RPMLOCK_FILE is not relocated to it. > > That causes grieves on our side because we need to install rpms without > root privileges. QA and development need to be able to install several > private instances of the same product. To do so we relocate the rpm > database (--dbpath) and the product (--prefix) to the users home > directory. That worked fine with older versions of rpm but became an > issue on Fedora core with rpm 4.3.1. > You can be the first to provide the patch (-; I saw this when the code was first introduced, but at the time they where working on it so I did not do anything about it. Course, I may be missing something...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
