On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:00, Greg Trounson wrote: > There was a bug in RPM which, upon trying to install packages when /usr > is mounted read only, results in a corrupted RPM database. This was closed not a bug, because its really an RFE - the question really lies is, why is there a point in installing a package if no files are put on the filesystem if the /usr is RO ? > Of course, it shouldn't be able to actually install any RPMS when /usr > is read only, but it should fail gracefully. Granted, it should exit gracefully - but its a case of priorities. Lots of other important bugs to fix > It's marked in bugzilla (#119185) as 'closed' and 'notabug' although it > clearly is a rather serious bug. If there's consensus as to why RPM should do RO with /usr, please add to the bug report, and jbj will definitely take a look at it if there's enough consensus -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/
