On Fri, Jul 22, 2005, Stephen AuYeung wrote:
> Does anyone knows why running openpkg rpm -U or -i causes the scanning of
> /etc/
> mtab? I found that by doing a strace to the command. The same does not happen
> in the system rpm.
>
> FYI, I am running OpenPKG 2.3.1 on FC3.
As no OpenPKG-specific part does this, it is certainly an RPM internal
thing. AFAIK RPM checks the filesystem for enough free space (and also
errs on this often). The scanning of /etc/mtab might be caused by a
function libc call RPM performs.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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