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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:04:05 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /root on a separate dataset breaks FreeBSD-base installation
Message-ID:  <20200411190405.0301a8e6e44151476e1c9a14@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200411185324.2d1f50eeb3fb4ce9d1030926@bidouilliste.com>
References:  <97d9e8d2-faa8-f02a-6a8e-008056486c65@gjunka.com> <202004111642.03BGgn1I023631@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20200411185324.2d1f50eeb3fb4ce9d1030926@bidouilliste.com>

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On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:53:24 +0200
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
> "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > 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.
> 
>  Ah right.
> 
> > > 
> > > Can I workaround with some option to pkg?
> > 
> > I doubt that.
> 
>  Someone (tm) should add support for this in pkg.

 I of course meant adding support to either proper error reporting or
fallback to symbolic link.

> > > GrzegorzJ
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org
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