[yocto] libpam-1.1.4-r1 strange behavior

[Francis Meyvis]

Hello,

My download directory is on a CIFS mounted drive.
The idea was that other PCs could access the already downloaded files
on the local network.

The package libpam however failed processing.
After changing the path on which I had mounted the CIFS partition,
to a PC local download directory, the package libpam succeeded.

What I saw:

It seemed to get in a busy loop related to SMB when using files name
"*.lock" and "*.done"
I found this by starting a wireshark session to see what was going on.
It seems to try to QUERY_PATH_INFO for *.lock in the download directory.
The CIFS server responds STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID

After I changed to a local download directory,
I found these files after processing the package in the download directory:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 franchan franchan       0 2011-07-31 18:38 99_pam.done
  -rw-r--r-- 1 franchan franchan       0 2011-07-31 18:38 *.done
  -rw-r--r-- 1 franchan franchan       0 2011-07-31 18:38
libpam-xtests.patch.done
  -rw-r--r-- 1 franchan franchan 1123186 2011-06-24 13:42
Linux-PAM-1.1.4.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 franchan franchan       0 2011-07-31 18:38
Linux-PAM-1.1.4.tar.bz2.done

According to me CIFS has troubles with these *.lock and *.done flag files.
Could the libpam package be done in another way so that it works for
CIFS files systems?
Or should I not have used CIFS fs when using bitbake?

Thanks,
francis