What were you trying to do that didn't work?

During installation of pcp-zeroconf package a warning is printed out and pmieconf fails.

What is the impact of this issue to you?

pmie is not pre-configured as expected

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

pcp-zeroconf-6.3.2-5.el10

How reproducible is this bug?:

Always with the pcp-6.3.2-5.el10 build.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install pcp-zeroconf package

   # yum install -y pcp-zeroconf-6.3.2-5.el10
   

Expected results

The installation pass without any warning and pmie is pre-configured.

Actual results

Error message:

WARNING: Cannot write to /var/lib/pcp/config/pmie/config.default, skipping pmieconf enable of dmthin.

The pmie config file is missing:

# ls /var/lib/pcp/config/pmie/config.default 
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/pcp/config/pmie/config.default': No such file or directory

Analysis

The problem is in run_pmieconf macro of pcp.spec file. The macro contains the following check to ensure pmieconf will be able to write to the /var/lib/pcp/config/pmie/config.default.

if [ -d "%1" -a -w "%1" -a -w "%1/%2" ]

The last check -w "%1/%2" unfortunately fails in case the config.default file does not yet exist in /var/lib/pcp/config/pmie/ directory - which is the case for fresh installation of PCP.