/root on a separate dataset breaks FreeBSD-base installation

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > I am following https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase
> > 
> > This:
> > 
> > pkg install -g 'FreeBSD-*'
> > 
> > fails with this:
> > 
> > [2/800] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.1_3:?? 4%
> > pkg: Fail to create hardlink: 
> > /root/.pkgtemp..cshrc.v5sxGCRu3GlP:Cross-device link
>                  ^^^^^^
> 
> 
> > [2/800] Extracting FreeBSD-runtime-12.1_3: 100%
> > 
> > /root is in a different ZFS dataset. It works fine if it's not. Why pkg 
> > is using /root/.pkgtemp instead of /tmp or /var/tmp? It doesn't matter 
> > from where I run the command, looks like the path is hardcoded.
> 
> The failure is caused by the fact that /.cshrc and /root/.cshrc
> are hardlinked to each other.  A hardlink can not cross a
> ZFS dataset or a ufs mount point.

 Ah right.

> > 
> > Can I workaround with some option to pkg?
> 
> I doubt that.

 Someone (tm) should add support for this in pkg.

> > GrzegorzJ
> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>