Re: Aptitude extended state file
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what file is Aptitude's extended state file?
>
> It is /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
Hmm. Well, the permissions on pkgstates look ok:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 671804 Jun 16 12:52 pkgstates
I think this problem may have something to do with NFS. My home partition
on this machine is NFS-mounted, and I use NIS to get user account info.
When I create a test user on the NIS/NFS server, aptitude gives the same
warning message for him on the client machine. So does a locally created
user on the client whose home directory is on the NFS mount. But a user
created locally on the client, with a home directory outside /home, does
not get the warning.
Do you think I should make this a bug report? If so, against what
package - aptitude or some piece of NFS?
package versions are:
aptitude 0.2.11.1-2 (on both NFS server and client)
nfs-common 1.0-2 "
nfs-kernel-server 1.0-2 (on server only)
kernels are:
2.4.18-686-smp on server, 2.4.18-686 on client
Thanks for your comments,
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Kevin McCarty Physics Department
kmccarty@princeton.edu Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544
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