On Fri, Jul 22, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >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.
I ran into a problem that could explain this. In my case, the build process was hanging for long periods of time while applying patches. I finally figured out what was going on by running strace on the long hanging process, finding that it was looking for amd automounted directories on a machine that wasn't on the network. After a bit of digging, I found that the ``patch'' program looks for the directories/files mentioned in each patches header. Patch's behaviour also can cause problems if there's an version of an original comparison directory present different than the one used to generate the patch. Thus if I have a directory, foo, and generate the patch from ../foo.orig, patch will be confused when applying the patch if there's a ../foo.orig directory different than the one from which the patch was created. Normally I generate patches with ``diff -uNr ../foo.orig . > patchfile''. I probably used ``diff -uNr $PWD.orig . > patchfile'' to create the problem with the amd automounter. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.'' -- H. L. Mencken ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
