chroot rpm -Uvh

[Eric "Shubes"]

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Next problem I have no idea about with my chroot jail: ;)
> 
> When I rpm-Uvh whatever.rpm from inside the jail, I get:
> error: failed to stat /proc: Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> This should be fairly easy. In order to replicate the /proc directory 
> under the jail, I simply (minded) did:
> ln -s /proc $JAILROOT/proc
> 
> The symbolic link exists, and seems to be ok for most other (not many 
> though) purposes.
> 
> I don't know what rpm uses it for. rpm -q commands seem to work fine, 
> and the package seems to be installed ok (the error message appears 
> right after the command, before the updating hashes, and the command 
> completes).
> 
> Jeremy (or anyone else), how do you set up /proc inside a jail?
> 
> TIA

As Rosanna Rosannadanna would say, "Never Mind".

I simply created an empty /proc in the jail, and it seems to have made 
it happy. It then complained about not being able to stat /sys, so I 
added an empty /sys too. If I need anything else, I guess it'll tell me, 
and then I'll add it.

Thanks for the sounding board.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'