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Description of problem: When you have anything mounted on /usr/local/src a filesytem upgrade fails. /usr/local/src is nfs mounted to make all local sources available to all machines. Is this a supported setup? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): filesystem-2.4.44-2.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Always (if something mounted on /usr/local/src) Steps to Reproduce: 1. nfs mount something on /usr/local/src 2. yum upgrade filesystem Actual results: Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.44-2.fc17.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/src: cpio: chown error: filesystem-2.4.44-2.fc17.x86_64: install failed error: filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc17.x86_64: erase skipped filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc17.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not! Expected results: normal upgrade
Thanks for the report. This is not the first report like this ... similar situation with other directories frequently nfs mounted. Well - I have no chance to fix that in filesystem package at the moment. Probably worth of some RFE against rpm, I already discussed the similar issue with rpm guy (Jindrich Novy) ... and the decision was NOTABUG in filesystem... see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526368 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696329 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538674 and maybe others. You could use rpm option --excludepath=/usr/local/src to avoid the failure. Filing RFE against rpm was suggested - feel free to do so at http://www.rpm.org/ .
(In reply to comment #1) > Filing RFE against rpm was suggested - feel free to do so at > http://www.rpm.org/ . I tried to do that, but even after registering at rpm.org I still get: "TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation" at http://rpm.org/newticket So I couldn't create a ticket/RFE. If you do have privileges could you please do so? Note that this issue was partially solved in with ticket #49 http://rpm.org/ticket/49 But that doesn't seem to be a full solution.
Ok, so what do you want to propose as RFE ? Some option for %dir macro ?
(In reply to comment #3) > Ok, so what do you want to propose as RFE ? Some option for %dir macro ? I think the easiest would be for rpm to detect that a directory is already there and is currently an active mount point (see man 1 mountpoint). In that case rpm should just warn that it cannot check and set the underlying permissions on the (already existing) dir and continue.