Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

[poma]

On 24.04.2013 22:51, David G. Miller wrote:
> poma <pomidorabelisima <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > On 24.04.2013 16:58, David G. Miller wrote:
> > > Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > […]
> > > > What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm
> > > > automatically. Is this possible somehow?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you in advance, Clemens
> > > >
> > > > 2013/4/24 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy <at> gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > <SNIP>
> > > As a workaround you can set rpm options through /etc/rpmrc.  You'll have to
> > > do the research to find out how to set it but it would then be used for all
> > > rpm transactions.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave
> >
> > rpmbuild != rpm :)
> >
> > poma
>
> Actually, /etc/rpmrc is used by rpm; not rpmbuild.  Frpmthe rpm man page:
>
> FILES
>    rpmrc Configuration
>        /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
>        /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc
>        /etc/rpmrc
>        ~/.rpmrc

man 8 rpmbuild :)
…
   GENERAL OPTIONS
   …
       --rcfile FILELIST
              … The default FILELIST is

/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc:/etc/rpmrc:~/.rpmrc.
…
FILES
   rpmrc Configuration
       /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
       /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc
       /etc/rpmrc
       ~/.rpmrc
…
> and from /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc:
>
> [root@bend ~]# cat /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
> #/*! \page config_rpmrc Default configuration: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
> # \verbatim
> #
> # This is a global RPM configuration file. All changes made here will
> # be lost when the rpm package is upgraded. Any per-system configuration
> # should be added to /etc/rpmrc, while per-user configuration should
> # be added to ~/.rpmrc.
> #
> #############################################################

You left out what is actually used - *optflags* & *arch* directives -
to guess what. :)
> Both rpm and rpmbuild use the same rc files.  Probably not the best design
> but take it up with the rpm project folks.

For some of the 'rpm' command options - *maybe* once upon a time. :)
It doesn't work even with the RPM version 4.3.3 - EL4. ;)

i.e. - RPM version 4.10.3.1
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-install-additional-options.html#S2-RPM-INS...

/etc/rpmrc:
excludedocs: 1

# rpm -i dstat-0.7.2-9.fc18.noarch.rpm
error: bad option 'excludedocs' at /etc/rpmrc:1

# rpm -e dstat
error: bad option 'excludedocs' at /etc/rpmrc:1

# yum install ./dstat-0.7.2-9.fc18.noarch.rpm
error: bad option 'excludedocs' at /etc/rpmrc:1
…

# yum erase dstat
error: bad option 'excludedocs' at /etc/rpmrc:1
…

But do work with i.e.

/etc/rpm/macros.excludedocs:
%_excludedocs 1

# rpm -qs dstat | grep "not installed"
not installed /usr/share/doc/dstat-0.7.2
…
not installed /usr/share/man/man1/dstat.1.gz

or

/etc/yum.conf:
tsflags=nodocs

Take into account that certain(rpm) directives don't work that way, anyway.

poma