Opened 10 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#78 closed enhancement (wontfix)

yum should warn if LIBC_UNIX_EAS is disabling EAs for install volume

Reported by: Steven Levine Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: yum Version:
Severity: highest Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Since yum/rpm requires symbolic links in a user happens to have EAs disabled with LIBC_UNIX_EAS, the yum update will fail with cryptic error messages.

To add to the confusion ln -s will fail and report

Operation not supported on socket

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Silvan Scherrer, 6 years ago

Severity: → highest

I personally heavily doubt a user even knows about this feature. A dev might, but then he should know what he did/does.

comment:2 by Silvan Scherrer, 5 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

I mark this as not important, because I thin no user really knows the LIBC_UNIX_EAS env at all. And we rely on symlinks heavily on most if not all ports. If you still feel it's a really important issue, please reopen again.

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