F15 perl-libs 5.12.4-160 problem (/usr/local)

[Panu Matilainen]

On 08/21/2011 06:15 PM, Mark Hittinger wrote:
>
> Hey guys
>
> Running Transaction
>    Updating   : 4:perl-libs-5.12.4-160.fc15.i686   1/4
> Error unpacking rpm package 4:perl-libs-5.12.4-160.fc15.i686
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/lib/perl5: cpio: mkdir
> Updating   : 4:perl-5.12.4-160.fc15.i686          2/4
> Error unpacking rpm package 4:perl-5.12.4-160.fc15.i686
> error: perl-libs-4:5.12.4-160.fc15.i686: install failed
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/share/perl5: cpio: mkdir
> 4:perl-5.12.4-159.fc15.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
> 4:perl-libs-5.12.4-159.fc15.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>
> perl-lib attempts to extract something into /usr/local
>
> this is probably the wrong spot for it
>
> some systems will have /usr/local nfs mounted read only so the perl install
> will complain.

You'll want to tell rpm about read-only NFS-mounts, eg:

# echo "%_netsharedpath /usr/local" > /etc/rpm/macros.nfs

That works with pretty much every ancient rpm version. Alternatively, 
rpm >= 4.9.1 currently in F15 updates-testing should deal with this kind 
of situation transparently unless you've changed the permissions on the 
affected directories.

	- Panu -