On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:00:06PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 29/12/2021 18:47, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>If /usr really is read-only, then it probably doesn't matter where
>the rpmdb is, since packages can't be installed (generally).
dnf opens these database files for writing, even for the simple `dnf list`.
If so this is definitely a bug. (However "dnf list" and "dnf
download"
seem to work as non-root, so I guess it must fall back to read-only?)
Rich.
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