Re: pkg/42256: check-files with /usr/pkgsrc mounted read-only

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42256; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42256: check-files with /usr/pkgsrc mounted read-only
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:53:10 +0100

 On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:40:02AM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/42256; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Steven Drake <sdrake%xnet.co.nz@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/42256: check-files with /usr/pkgsrc mounted read-only
 > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:34:06 +1300 (NZDT)
 > 
 >  On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  
 >  >  On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:45:01PM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
 >  >  > Running /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/pkg/db/pkg  python25-2.5.4nb1
 >  >  > pkg_delete: Couldn't remove /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/dbm.so
 >  >  > /bin/rm: cannot remove `check-files-pre-message': Read-only file system
 >  >  > /bin/rm: cannot remove `check-files-post-message': Read-only file 
 > system
 >  >  
 >  >  Why is rm -f returning an error? That sounds more like a coreutils bug
 >  >  than anything else.
 >  
 >  Your suggesting that rm -f treats unlink(2) failures that return an EROFS 
 >  errno value specially, and by looking at the source's nether the coreutils
 >  rm or the netbsd rm do.
 
 Yes, but the files shouldn't exist in first place. They are phony
 targets.
 
 Joerg