Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:20:13 GMT From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/79655: linux_base-8 fails to install as non-root Message-ID: <200504262120.j3QLKDYI054726@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/79655; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/79655: linux_base-8 fails to install as non-root
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:11:31 -0600
I ran into the same problem as John. Unfortunately although the patch
allows a non-root user to start the installation, it is failing for me
on 5.4-RC3/amd64 with an up to date ports collection. I think the problem
is related to the handling of ARCH, in particular the following section in
the Makefile:
.if (${ARCH} == "amd64")
LATEST_LINK:= ${LATEST_LINK:C/linux/linux32/}
ARCH= i386
FALLBACK_ELF_MIB= kern.elf32.fallback_brand
RPMFLAGS+= --noscripts
.else
FALLBACK_ELF_MIB= kern.fallback_elf_brand
.endif
When we su to do something a sub make process is invoked as part of the
su command to perform the privileged task(s). I believe this invocation
is inheriting the altered ARCH setting, which then breaks the installation
of the RPMs during pre-install as the sub make doesn't have LATEST_LINK,
FALLBACK_ELF_MIB or RPMFLAGS set correctly (which in this case leads to
the glibc-common RPM failing to execute its post-install scripts, which
it wouldn't try to do if --noscripts was set).
One possible solution would be to only use ARCH to set these flags and
then set a variable named LINUX_ARCH that could be used in the names
of the RPM files, etc. E.g. the above would become:
.if (${ARCH} == "amd64")
LATEST_LINK:= ${LATEST_LINK:C/linux/linux32/}
TRUE_ARCH= i386
FALLBACK_ELF_MIB= kern.elf32.fallback_brand
RPMFLAGS+= --noscripts
.else
TRUE_ARCH= ${ARCH}
FALLBACK_ELF_MIB= kern.fallback_elf_brand
.endif
and all the other occurences of ${ARCH} would become ${TRUE_ARCH}.
Comments?
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