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.