[pacman-dev] little bug with pacman and root

[VMiklos]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:14:16AM +0200, wael at siemens-mobiles.org wrote:
> Let's consider the following setup:
> I have a distribution (any distribution it doesn't matter) installed on /
> where am looking to install arch or frugalware on a chroot from it, So
> pacman has been extracted to / and pacman.static is used... let's suppose
> /arch is the chroot...
> 
> As i always install and upgrade I keep the pacman cache in /home partition
> under /home/cache/pacman and create a symlink ( /var/cache/pacman ->
> /home/cache/pacman ), so for instance /arch/var/cache/pacman is a symlink
> to /home/cache/pacman (I know the link is broken but that's the idea), Now
> I run
> pacman.static -Sy -r /arch bash db binutils kernel26
> 
> Of course pacman will begin by saying, /arch/var/cache/pacman does not
> exist... creating it (since the symlink is broken) but it also fails to
> create it, so pacman decides to use /tmp and here it is all messed up, it
> start downloading packages to /arch/tmp and it fails on checking packages
> integrity it seems it is trying to do that on /tmp instead of /arch/tmp..

here is a proposed fix:

http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=plain_commitdiff;h=20060602130052-e2957-c3bba842eda217a342955e9cdd166aa21e47c279.gz;

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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