On 8/12/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:49 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: > > "Eduardo Grosclaude" <eduardo.grosclaude at 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 -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060812/e5e85d56/attachment-0005.html>