Marc Wäckerlin wrote:
Hi
I am working in Ubuntu and compiling RPMs for Fedora. That's why I install Fedora in
a **chroot** environment. That works fine with Fedora 16, but fails with Fedora 17 due
to the wrong "rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir)" dependency.
I Do not upgrade and I cannot use dracut, because Fedora 17 is in a chroot and cannot
boot. So the instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
do **not** help.
How to solve the problem? What does dracut do, why(*) does rpm fail, where does this
dependency come from? How can I either fake this dependency or prevent RPM from requiring
it? I need a deep inside knowledge on what's going on, what dracut does and what rpm does.
What have the fedora-guys patched to get thie wrong dependency, and how can I undo it?
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(*) I mean technically *why*, not user-view answers like "to prevent upgrades without
fs-migration", this kind of answer does not help, but technical answers like "dracut
creates content X in file Y, then the dependency is ignored in rpm"
Marc, I have to ask why you are doing that as opposed to just creating a VM and
running Fedora in that. It just seems so much easier. And I have friends running
fc17 in VM on both Mac and Windows7, so it's pretty sure Ubuntu would do so as well.
Just curious why you took that approach.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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