Bug 8140

Summary:	rpm handles unavailable filesystem incorrectly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Richard Cobbe <rcc>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Richard Cobbe 2000-01-03 14:07:35 UTC

I just downloaded a bunch of updates from one of RH's mirrors and attempted
to install them via rpm -Uvh.  Got the following results:

installing package apache-1.3.9-8 needs 148Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package apache-manual-1.3.9-8 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem
installing package ee-0.3.11-1 needs 145Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package esound-0.2.17-1 needs 145Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package esound-devel-0.2.17-1 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem
installing package groff-1.15-1 needs 145Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package groff-gxditview-1.15-1 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem
installing package libtiff-3.5.4-1 needs 145Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package libtiff-devel-3.5.4-1 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem
installing package linuxconf-1.16r10-2 needs 145Kb on the /home filesystem
installing package linuxconf-devel-1.16r10-2 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem
installing package sharutils-4.2.1-1.6.1 needs 145Kb on the /home
filesystem

Now, at least one of the apache packages should have failed, because my
/home is controlled by the automounter and NIS and thus unavailable.
However, none of the rest of the packages require /home.  If I issue the
same command but omit the apache packages, the upgrade completes
successfully.  (Well, minus that annoying 'package README not found in file
index', of course.)

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 22:38:59 UTC

This is correct behaviour. If you want to stop RPM from trying to use /home
instead of indicating an error, you can use the --excludepath option.