From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jan 22 17:33:39 2008 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de X-Belgacom-Dynamic: yes From: J F Lemaire To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] rpm Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:27:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) References: <4789F35B.8020502@freesbee.fr> <200801131349.34892.jflemaire@skynet.be> <478A3BF3.1080500@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <478A3BF3.1080500@freesbee.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801131827.40005.jflemaire@skynet.be> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jflemaire@skynet.be Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freemint id m0MGP1eR004618 Status: X-Status: X-Keywords: On Sunday 13 January 2008, Vincent Rivière wrote: > J F Lemaire wrote : > > Does /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm reside on an ext2 partition? If not, > > I don't think ARAnyM's hostfs driver handles file locking yet, so > > that may be the reason. > > Yes, I use the excellent Pack_3d, which uses hostfs. > http://helijah.free.fr/Pack_3D/Pack_3D.html > > Damn, if hostfs prevents to use rpm, this is a big issue ! If you want a MiNT environment for development under ARAnyM, the easiest route is the solution proposed by mikro: install the complete Easymint distrib. It's trivial and the installer knows about ARAnyM. Anyway, this is off-topic here :-) JFL -- Jean-François Lemaire