On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Solar Designer wrote:
> owl-hier is a core package, few people would dare to install it on
> another distribution without also being willing to convert more of the
> system into Owl. So they may as well just do a make installworld.
yes, i'm somewhat grappling with that now.
> My reasoning to have it as /var/empty is to permit for export of the
> package into other distributions which also provide the directory.
i actually tried this first. i created /var/empty root:root and tried
installing sysklogd and RPM still complained:
(09:47:49)[beldridg@rush tmp]$ ls -l /var |grep emp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Oct 10 08:23 empty
(09:48:18)[beldridg@rush tmp]$ sudo rpm -F
/tmp/sysklogd-1.4.1-1owl.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
/var/empty is needed by sysklogd-1.4.1-1owl
so, is it a permissions problem on /var/empty?
- brett
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