[Rpm-maint] rpm --root doesn't work or I am doing something wrong?

[Marcin Rybak]

2008/3/7, Neo Jia <neojia at gmail.com>:
>
> > rpm --root=/home/cjia/workareas/rpm_root/fc8_root/ -ivh
> setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> warning: setup-2.6.10-1.fc8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:setup                  ###########################################
> [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/aliases;47d1b91c:
> cpio: open failed - Permission denied
>
> Why it is still trying to write to /etc/... ?



Did you init the rpm database inside the --root?

BR,

Marcin Rybak

http://marti.dimerge.net/
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