On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 12:45 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: >Okay, I got everything to work now with yum-2.2.0. :) > >Attached is my script to install (FC3) "Base" into an empty dir via >yum-2.2.0. It's pretty straight forward and simple but I figured it >might save someone some time. > >Thanks again, Seth for helping me figure this out. > cool, thanks: comments on your script: 1. edit your conf file so it doesn't have any $releasever in it and you won't need to install fedora-release first. 2. use the gpgkey= option for repositories and yum will import gpg keys into the rpmdb for you. 3. if you want to avoid problems with scripts/triggers on install you can add: tsflags=noscripts notriggers to your [main] in your yum.conf - it will keep %scripts and triggers from your rpms from running. 4. you shouldn't _HAVE_ to make /dev/null - you can even bind mount /dev/ in if you need to. 5. don't forget the mount for /selinux 6. if you're doing this on x86_64 for x86 you can run 'setarch i686' first to make it believe it is an i686 system. later, -sv