John Summerfield wrote:
This might not strictly be an Anaconda question, but Anaconda is
involved and (it seems to me) there's some inconsistency involving
Anaconda and yum.
I've tried copying* a RHEL5-clone DVD image to disk to use for network
installs. I might not not actually have tried to install a system from
it, but I have tried to install packages from it using yum.
The problem is that yum grabs repomd.xml and primary.xml.gz and then barfs:
10:11 [summer@numbat ~]$ sudo yum install libmtp-devel libnjb-devel
libid3tag-devel
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
sl-security 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
sl-base 100% |=========================| 1.3 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 183 kB 00:02
sl-securit: ################################################## 478/478
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 841 kB 00:00
sl-base : ################################################## 2454/2454
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libid3tag-devel to pack into transaction set.
media:/1178298547.683145//libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm: [Errno
4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failed to retrieve libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from
sl-base
error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
10:12 [summer@numbat ~]$
I have, of course, installed from this image, though I don't actually
recall whether I did a network or CDROM install.
I've diagnosed that media:/1178298547.683145 needs to get changed to the
base URL, but I can't see how it (apparently) works at system install
time and not later.
On checking other ISO images I have here, I this might as well arise
with FC6, F7 and (most likely) RHEL5 itself, as all have this media://
stuff.
How's it supposed to work, and more importantly why might it not work?
* The "copy" is actually a symlink to the loop-mounted ISO image. As yum
fetches the repo files, I believe my setup is correct as far as that goes.
I think this may be a known issue, though I forget the details. I
recall working around this (or something very similar) by using
createrepo with --outputdir. I.e. it creates a new set of metadata
which points to the same loopmounted iso rpms. I could then use the
resulting repo to install packages via yum.
-dmc
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