[Rpm-maint] rpm-4.4.2.1: installing packages fails in rpmtsAcquireLock()

[Andreas Haumer]

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Hi!

A followup as it seems I have found the problem as well
a solution!

Andreas Haumer schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Today I tried to upgrade to rpm-4.4.2.1 but it seems it
> is broken, at least on my system...
> 
> The problem: rpm-4.4.2.1 denies to upgrade a package with
> the following error message:
> 
> error: can't create transaction lock on /
> 
> and the upgrade fails, of course.
> 

The new rpm command used "/" as transaction lock path
because my RPM macro file was missing the macro "_rpmlock_path"

Without this macro set, rpm tried to put it's lock on "/"
which fails like described in my previous post.

Solution: put the following line in /usr/lib/rpm/macro:

%_rpmlock_path        %{_dbpath}/__db.000


With this macro set, rpm works as expected when installing
packages.

Regards,

- - andreas

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