On 8/12/06, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:49 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:
"Eduardo Grosclaude" eduardo.grosclaude@gmail.com wrote:
Great! I was just looking for this! Unfortunately there seems to be something missing: by the time we run the first yum command, there's no distroverpkg package installed under $LIVE to query for $releasever.
Should the user install centos-release RPM with prefix equal to $LIVE beforehand? Or is there any other easy but correct way to pass this variable to
yum?
I got around this by editing my yum repo files to replace $releasever with 4. Which is horrible, so I too would like to know if there's a better way.
I still can't get it to work, though. I do get about 90MB of stuff installed, as promised, but there are lots of '%post(...) scriptlet failed' messages during the installation. Although many things are installed into the chroot area there are clearly some things missing. The first command I typed in the chroot was 'ls', but /bin/ls isn't there even though, according to yum.log, coreutils was installed.
Actually, I was able to scroll back far enough to see this during the installation:
error: %pre(coreutils-5.2.1-31.2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
coreutils-5.2.1-31.2
Ron
If you can install centos-release into the chroot, it should then return 4.
Or editing the yum repo file and addding 4 is OK.
I downloaded the latest centos-release rpm and tried to install it into $LIVE with rpm relocate feature. This has to be done with --force as rpm thinks it is already installed. Despite the rpm being "no relocatable" as per "rpm -qpi", this works, populating $LIVE/etc and friends. However, after this, yum keeps giving the same error as before.
Brutally replacing $releasever by "4" in CentOS-Base.repo seems to convince yum to work. But then doing "yum -c $LIVE/etc/yum.conf --installroot=$LIVE install centos-release" proceeds to _install_ the same package that rpm had previously _installed_... hmmmm... :P