rpm stupid

[Elan Ruusamäe]

hi

why is the rpm giving out so many errors,
instead of just dying on first permission problem?

and also the garbage it outputs corrupts my terminal

this happens if i run rpm (accidentally) by non-root

builder at pld-i686 tmp $ rpm -Uhv *.rpm --oldpackage
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:glibc-misc             ########################################### [ 25%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/nsswitch.conf;425f5d81: cpio: open failed - Permission denied
   2:glibc                  ########################################### [ 50%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/ld-2.3.3.so;425f5d81: cpio: open failed - Permission denied
   3:iconv                  ########################################### [ 75%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/gconv: cpio: chmod failed - Operation not permitted
   4:glibc-devel            ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/gencat;425f5d81: cpio: open failed - Permission denied
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
telinit: must be superuser.
error: %postun(glibc-2.3.4-0.20041122.2.1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
rpmdb: DBcursor->del: attempt to modify a read-only tree
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "glibc" from Name
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ld.so.cache" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ld.so.conf" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ld-2.3.3.so" from Basenames
...

error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "|a/t>¹ïôÛv»gn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Hx)Ìo¬1ÊYgn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "¬E.Dè ñ"åÄ_âÌÌgn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "=ŸŒxnPÅeeD€K
                                              Ÿ¬gn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "0ÈÂrd "CÓ-êŸ
ÉŸAÿ`Ìfgn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
-ÿGC|ת-åœgn" from Filemd5secord "»H
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "à-§^s¬KmìYÙßðÑÐgn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "WS8+( µì2¡fÅÒ,gn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "A¥<âæJowfßgn" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "
âZÈ¥¬ÐìÀPgn" from Filemd5s











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glen