[Bug 304167] New: Installation of Midnight Commander fails on both factory and beta2
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304167 Summary: Installation of Midnight Commander fails on both factory and beta2 Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 2 Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jarl@yaeda.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- I dont remember the error message.. Sorry, but it is when extracting the message, some kind of linking error I think. cpio!? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #1 from Jarl Gjessing
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Jiri Dluhos
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--- Comment #2 from Ladislav Michnovič
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--- Comment #3 from Vladimir Nadvornik
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Christian Boltz
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--- Comment #5 from Jarl Gjessing
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--- Comment #6 from Vladimir Nadvornik
What about always using symlinks instead of hardlinks? This would solve the problem.
Not completely. Neither a symlink from a configuration file in /etc to a configuration example in /usr nor the other way around does not make really sense.
I don't think this solves the problem - don't even try to assume that two directories are on the same partiton.
IMHO fdupes makes sense on read-only files, i. e. on /usr. I can't think of any reason why /usr should not be on single partition. Linking files in /var, which are empty at the beginning and are supposed to grow over time is a bug. Thus I would skip directories like /etc and /var completely. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #7 from Ladislav Michnovič
I got the error when installing B2, but forgot the errormessage, so I tried again after finalizing the installation using yast2 sw_single, and got the exact same error. I then manually installed it using rpm -Uvh and got a similar error (not the whole bunch) but now the package is installed I just ignored the error.
How is your hard disk partitioned? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Vladimir Nadvornik
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--- Comment #9 from Christian Boltz
(In reply to comment #4 from Christian Boltz) ..
I don't think this solves the problem - don't even try to assume that two directories are on the same partiton.
IMHO fdupes makes sense on read-only files, i. e. on /usr. I can't think of any reason why /usr should not be on single partition.
Well, "grown" systems with several small partitions or hard disks might be an example. I don't say these are "usual" systems nowadays, but why should you risk problems by using hardlinks when symlinks do the same job at no risk? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Vladimir Nadvornik
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Dirk Mueller
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Michael Schröder
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Dirk Mueller
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Christoph Thiel
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Dirk Mueller
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Petr Gajdos
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Michael Matz
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