Bug 11121

Summary:	rpm still does not handle --excludepath correctly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <moschny>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Version:	6.2
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Description Thomas Moschny 2000-04-30 13:36:45 UTC

The /usr fs is mounted via nfs and read-only.
I want to install some packages but omit files in /usr as the rpms are
already installed on the server from which /usr is mounted.
So I try for example (on the client)
rpm -Uvh --excludepath /usr --nodeps kdetoys-1.1.2-3.sparc.rpm

Response is:
kdetoys                     unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin:
cpio: chown failed - Bad file descriptor

I expect rpm in case of --excludepath /somewhere to *totally* ignore those
files of the package which would be placed in /somewhere.
We even observed rpm trying to create files a la .rpmsave, .rpmorig,
.rpmnew in the excluded path.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-08-07 13:40:14 UTC

This problem will be addresses after rpm-4.0 is released.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-01-09 15:56:44 UTC

--excludepath is fixed in rpm-4.0.2-0.19 and rpm-4.0.1-0.41. RO fs issues I'm
collecting
at bugzilla #4098

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4098 ***