I am happily trying to move to CentOS4. However, I have run into a
serious issue with the way --installroot works with the version of yum
included. In the past I have been able to create an empty filesystem,
mount it and do:
yum -y --installroot=`pwd`/mnt install rpm
yum -y --installroot=`pwd`/mnt install yum
yum -y --installroot=`pwd`/mnt install fedora-release
To build a filesystem that I can then chroot to and install all of the
other packages I want. Now, it fails with:
[root@titania ~]# yum -y --installroot=`pwd`/mnt install rpm
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
extras 100% |=========================| 324 B 00:00
/root/mnt/var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required
after the Public Identifier
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
^
/root/mnt/var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral
" or ' expected
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
^
/root/mnt/var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SYSTEM or
PUBLIC, the URI is missing
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras
Error importing repomd.xml from extras: Error: could not parse file
/root/mnt/var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml
I'm hoping that I'm doing something wrong with the new version of yum and
there is a simple command line fix. Help?
-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_
