Description of problem: Doing a package install to an alternate root, %pre scripts will not run at all if /var/tmp doesn't exist Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RPM version 4.2.3 How reproducible: consistent Steps to Reproduce: 1.make a trivial package with a %pre script 2.initialize an alternate root area: a. (rpm --initdb ...) b. get /bin/sh working in the chroot 3.install the package to the alternate root (rpm -i --root ...) Actual results: %pre scripts always fail, like this: error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping ... Additional info: add step 2.c: mkdir /var/tmp in the chroot area; then the pre script will run... per Jeff Johnson: > Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that I added a lazy mkdir on /var/tmp the 14th > or 15th time I had to diagnose this problem years ago.
Yes, here's the lazy mkdir when creating temporary files in order to run scriptlets: /* Create the temp directory if it doesn't already exist. */ /*@-branchstate@*/ if (!_initialized) { _initialized = 1; tempfn = rpmGenPath(prefix, tpmacro, NULL); if (rpmioMkpath(tempfn, 0755, (uid_t) -1, (gid_t) -1)) goto errxit; } %pre scripts are run in lib/psm.c, with the scritlet written to a temp file created by makeTempFile(). WORKSFORME
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