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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /root on a separate dataset breaks FreeBSD-base installation
Message-ID:  <202004111642.03BGgn1I023631@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <97d9e8d2-faa8-f02a-6a8e-008056486c65@gjunka.com>

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> I am following https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase
> 
> This:
> 
> pkg install -g 'FreeBSD-*'
> 
> fails with this:
> 
> [2/800] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.1_3:?? 4%
> pkg: Fail to create hardlink: 
> /root/.pkgtemp..cshrc.v5sxGCRu3GlP:Cross-device link
                 ^^^^^^


> [2/800] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.1_3: 100%
> 
> /root is in a different ZFS dataset. It works fine if it's not. Why pkg 
> is using /root/.pkgtemp instead of /tmp or /var/tmp? It doesn't matter 
> from where I run the command, looks like the path is hardcoded.

The failure is caused by the fact that /.cshrc and /root/.cshrc
are hardlinked to each other.  A hardlink can not cross a
ZFS dataset or a ufs mount point.

> 
> Can I workaround with some option to pkg?

I doubt that.

> GrzegorzJ

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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