bin/109334: pkg_add(1) using chroot exits with error if wrong
directory
Garrett Cooper
yanegomi at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 08:50:08 UTC 2010
The following reply was made to PR bin/109334; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, nick at anywi.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/109334: pkg_add(1) using chroot exits with error if wrong
directory
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:42:52 -0700
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> =A0 =A0I realize that this PR has been sitting around for a long time,
> but is it possible that you can dig up more details, like filesystem
> layout and/or environment variables used when trying to run pkg_add? I
> know this seems like a lot, and yes I might be able to reproduce the
> issue on my own, but the fact is that there are a large number of
> potential failures that could occur based on what you had set in your
> environment and what did not exist on your chrooted filesystem.
Nevermind. This is easy to produce and I know why it's happening. From
chroot(2):
It should be noted that chroot() has no effect on the process's curren=
t
directory.
Let me think about the best way to resolve this issue and I'll get
back to you by Monday or Tuesday.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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