The following reply was made to PR pkg/42256; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/42256: check-files with /usr/pkgsrc mounted read-only
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:53:10 +0100
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:40:02AM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/42256; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Steven Drake <sdrake%xnet.co.nz@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: pkg/42256: check-files with /usr/pkgsrc mounted read-only
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:34:06 +1300 (NZDT)
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:45:01PM +0000, Steven Drake wrote:
> > > Running /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/pkg/db/pkg python25-2.5.4nb1
> > > pkg_delete: Couldn't remove /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/dbm.so
> > > /bin/rm: cannot remove `check-files-pre-message': Read-only file system
> > > /bin/rm: cannot remove `check-files-post-message': Read-only file
> system
> >
> > Why is rm -f returning an error? That sounds more like a coreutils bug
> > than anything else.
>
> Your suggesting that rm -f treats unlink(2) failures that return an EROFS
> errno value specially, and by looking at the source's nether the coreutils
> rm or the netbsd rm do.
Yes, but the files shouldn't exist in first place. They are phony
targets.
Joerg