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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Pixel wrote:

> "Neo Jia" <neojia at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> sorry, I don't find any other mailing list to submit my questions.
>>
>> I am trying to setup a build root so I need to install rpm package to
>> a different root directory.
>>
>>> 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/... ?
>
> i must be because chroot(2) failed... without an error message.
>
> you must be root to use rpm --root

Yup, and it's also a bug in rpm that it doesn't give any indication that 
chroot() failed.

 	- Panu -