[pca] zones and $TMPDIR

[Craig Bell]

Martin Paul wrote:
> Not me. I have only minimal experience with patch zones (and zones in general).

  No worries, thanks Martin.  Many zones users prefer to detach them before patching, and then use "zoneadm attach -u" (Update on Attach) afterwards to speed up the patch process.  I left this particular full-root zone attached, and let patchadd handle it directly.

  I spun another crackpot theory: When patchadd calls zone_enter(), the existing $TMPDIR (relative to GZ root) carries over, and does reflect the chroot()ed zonepath.  In other words, package tools in the NGZ try to access a temporary directory accessible only in the GZ.

  That may not even be technically possible, but I've seen stranger things before, and I'm admittedly short of ideas.  =-)  Perhaps some other readers have run into this...  Anyways, I agree that my syndrome doesn't look quite the same as the EUID nobody issue.  Thx...  -c


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