Bug 56905 - rpm update fails with devfs
Summary: rpm update fails with devfs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: SysVinit
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-29 20:38 UTC by Bernie Innocenti
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-11-29 20:38:47 UTC
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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.
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