Bug 56905

Summary:	rpm update fails with devfs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Bernie Innocenti <bernie+fedora>
Component:	SysVinit	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	rvokal, valdis.kletnieks
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Description Bernie Innocenti 2001-11-29 20:38:40 UTC

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Description of problem:
rpm can't update the package when /dev is a devfs filesystem because
renaming /dev/initctl fails

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount devfs in /dev
2. type rpm -U SysVinit-2.79-2.i386.rpm



Actual Results:  output from rpm is:

error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev/initctl: cpio: rename
failed - Operation not permitted


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-25 07:10:12 UTC

If you need to install in a situation where /dev is (essentially) read-only, you
should add devfs to the netsharedpath that RPM will exclude. See
/usr/lib/rpm/macros for details.