Package: mach
Version: 0.9.1-2
The README.Debian says this (rewrapped):
RPM locking bug
---------------
Due to a bug in mach, it tries to use the default settings of the
host for RPM transactions locking. Since the Debian "rpm" package
does not ship a /var/lib/rpm for safety reasons, locking fails
with cryptic message.
The clean solution is to fix mach, but two other solutions exist:
- create the /var/lib/rpm directory (a bit ugly)
- create a /var/lib/rpm-lock directory and create a
/etc/rpm/macros.mach with:
%_rpmlock_path /var/lib/rpm-lock/__db.000
(less ugly)
Surely it would be better to have the mach package do the latter
workaround ? The lock directory could be /var/lib/mach/rpm-lock and
then the result would be entirely nicely private.
It seems odd to have a file you have to edit to make it work ...
Thanks,
Ian.
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