On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:40:20PM -0700, Jed Reynolds wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > rpm --root $T -Uvh --nodeps --force > > $UML/RPM/centos-release-4-4.2.i386.rpm \ > > $UML/RPM/yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm > > > > yum -y -C --installroot=$T groupinstall "Base" > >+ yum -y -C --installroot=/var/tmp/bld.13824 groupinstall Base > >Setting up Group Process > >Setting up repositories > >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update > >Cannot find repomd.xml file for update > >Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for update > I think I've seen this when I have a repository listed in > /etc/yum.repos.d that I don't have access to. For example, I tried The contents of /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d in the installroot image area I'm building are identical to the main server files. But it gave me an idea, so I strace'd the yum process. I can see it making a request to get a mirror server, I can see it getting the response but then not even attempt to talk to the server it was told to. If I change the repos.d files to use baseurl rather than mirrorlist then I can't even see yum attempting to connect to the server. If I try to pre-seed the cache files from the main server it then moans about no cache for base/yumgroups.xml (becasue the main server doesn't have that). > http://uml.jfdi.org/uml/Wiki.jsp?page=BuildingRootFileSystems > http://uml.jfdi.org/uml/Wiki.jsp?page=UMLRootFilesystems Thanks, I'll look into that. -- rgds Stephen