Re: /var/lock/rpm/transaction not relocatable

[Christof Pintaske <Christof Pintaske sun com>]

Hi Enrique,

thanks for the info. 129700 sounds pretty similar. I couldn't find an 
according bug and had filed one on my own (129463). I will put a 
reference to your bug into it.

- Christof

> > We face a problem with rpm 4.3.x in that the transaction locking does 
> > try to lock the file /var/lock/rpm/transaction regardless of the dbpath 
> > or any prefix. In fact rpmlock_new() from rpm/lib/rpmlock.c takes a 
> > "rootdir" as an argument, however RPMLOCK_FILE is not relocated to it.
> >    
> [snip]
>  
>
> > I guess the transaction file should relocate to the rpm database 
> > directory, otherwise you could still face race conditions on, for 
> > example, a diskless client, when installing rpms from the server and 
> > from the client at the same time.
> >    
>
> I have just filed a bug report on a related issue.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129700
>
> -Enrique
>