Bug 8709

Summary:	rpm segfaults with --excludedir
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <moschny>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Thomas Moschny 2000-01-21 14:25:10 UTC

We got segmentation faults while trying to install some rpms this way:

 rpm -Uvh --excludedir /usr kdetoys-1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

while /usr being mounted read-only.
This behaviour is similar for all rpms where /usr is relocatable.

The quick and dirty workaround is to use the following command:

 rpm -Uvh --relocate /usr=/tmp --excludedir /usr kdetoys-1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

which does exactly what we want: Omit all files of the /usr tree while
installing an rpm-package.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 20:35:59 UTC

Confirmed with latest rpm in rawhide:
[root@ostrich-deluxe 6.2]# rpm -Uvh --excludepath /usr
alpha/kdetoys-1.1.2-3.alpha.rpm --nodeps
Segmentation fault

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-02-22 11:55:59 UTC

Fixed in cvs, will be in rpm-3.0.4-0.43. Thanks for noticing.