> cool things in order of priority to me: > - make yum be able to install into a buildroot yum presently will manipulate package files within a chroot installation just fine. It just has the pre=requisite of a RPM-capable chroot existing. This fragment addresses this: ... # Make a clean chroot which is RPM capable # sudo mkdir -p $DESTIN/archive/ sudo rpm --initdb --root $DESTIN #-- copy these packages into the $DESTIN/archive/ # directory - setup rpm termcap shadow-utils MINIMA="setup rpm termcap shadow-utils" for i in $MINIMA ; do cp $SOURCE/$i-[1-8]*rpm $DESTIN/archive/ done sudo rpm -U --root $DESTIN --nodeps \ --nopre --nopost $DESTIN/archive/*rpm #-- copy the rest of the desired packages into the # $DESTIN/archive/ area sudo rpm -U $HASH $VERBOSE --root $DESTIN --nopre \ --nopost --force $DESTIN/archive/*rpm #-- and do it again now that the tools are there, with # the post and pre scripts sudo rpm -U --root $DESTIN --nodeps --force \ $DESTIN/archive/*rpm # # -- there is some post fixup on userid -- escpecially # the rpm.rpm one ... At this point, we have a clean, RPM-able chroot. Yum runs fine in it. Pre-announcement: ------------------------ rpmbuild-chroot@xxxxxxxxx http://www.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/rpmbuild-chroot I have cc'd the fedora-devel list, as later this week, once I have formulated a clean list charter, I anticipate starting a rpmbuild-chroot mailing list, based upon some feedback I have received. Details will be announced here, on fedora-devel, Mathias; and Red Hat's rpm-lists. Old hands know the frill -- feel free to pre-subscribe -- Russ Herrold
