I'm trying to write a script that will build a root filesystem for use
with user mode linux. Obviously, I'm missing something. Here's what I
have so far:
#!/bin/sh -x
dd if=/dev/zero of=root_fs bs=1024 count=1 seek=1M
mkfs.ext2 -j -F -v root_fs
mount -o loop root_fs mnt
mkdir -p mnt/var/lib/rpm
mkdir -p mnt/var/cache/yum
mkdir -p mnt/var/log
rpm --initdb --root `pwd`/mnt
yum -y -d1 --installroot=mnt install rpm
umount mnt
And here is the error:
+ yum -y -d1 --installroot=mnt install rpm
Unable to find pid
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory
(2)
error: cannot open Packages database in mnt/var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 237, in main
clientStuff.rpmdbNevralLoad(rpmDBInfo)
File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 160, in rpmdbNevralLoad
hdrs = ts.dbMatch()
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
Help?
Alternative ideas?
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts, it's what I can remember in time to use.
