On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:14 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote: >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"> you're getting an html 'missing' web page back from the url install. But instead of sending you a 404 message ,it's sending you actual content. it's probably b/c you're using $releasever in the baseurl and since there is no package that can be completed for that it's resolving to Null. -sv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050301/2f45b05c/attachment.htm
