Toralf Lund wrote:
On some of our Red Hat 9 machines,
redhat-install-packages <rpms>
will fail with the message
Install Tree Not Found
The path /mnt/cdrom does not look
like a valid installation source
- which seems a bit strange, since this variant of the tool is
supposed to install specific RPMs passed on the command line, not read
a distribution CD.
On other hosts, the command works as expected, i.e. it will try to
install or upgrade the packages specified on the command line rather
like 'rpm -U' would. I'm really baffled by this, as I've looked and
looked again, but I just can't see any differences between the hosts
where this command works as expected an the ones where it doesn't. Any
ideas?
Just for the record:
The problem seems to be that redhat-config-packages *requires* a
distribution tree, presumably to find out about dependencies. It will
use the (partial) one installed via the "comps" package if it exists,
but look for an install media if it doesn't. Here is a little trick I'm
(now) using to trick redhat-install-packages into installing when I have
neither the comps package nor a distribution tree
cat > .discinfo <<EOF
9999999999.999999
Fake Dist
$MACHTYPE
1
base
