A problem when initialization smart

[Anders F Björklund]

Sriram Narayanan wrote:

> I'm trying to initialize smart on my system. I get the following error:
> smart install --data-dir=~/aaaa --log-level=debug
> warning: The Smart library is already in use by another process.
> warning: Configuration is in readonly mode!
> Updating cache...
> ############################################################### [100%]
> 
> Computing transaction...
>                                               debug:
> debug: Tasks started: 0, completed: 0, pruned: 0, failed: 0.
> 
> What am I doing wrong here ?

You might want to give some more details, like versions and such.


Normally you would need to use something like "sudo" for install ?

> warning: Configuration is in readonly mode!


That does not account for the "already in use" though, but anyway.

> warning: The Smart library is already in use by another process.


The --data-dir only affects the smart files (i.e. /var/lib/smart),
the install root is set with other options: one per smart backend.

There is one option to set the root, and one to set the pm db dir.
It's a bit unfortunate that they are split, but that's how it is.

"rpm-root", "/",
"rpm-dbpath", "var/lib/rpm"

"deb-root", "/",
"deb-admindir", "var/lib/dpkg"

"slack-root", "/",
"slack-packages-dir", "var/log/packages"

"arch-root", "/",
"arch-packages-dir", "var/lib/pacman"

--anders