--- James Antill <james@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:24 -0700, Admin Admin > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > When I am trying the instructions at: > > http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/ > Building_a_Xen_Guest_Root_Filesystem_using_yum_and_rpm > > > > and using yum, I am getting the following errors: > > Note that the yum version is very important, this > looks like a _very_ old > version. > > > > ===================================================== > $ yum > > --installroot=/xen/vm2/root -y groupinstall Base > Setting up Group > > Process > > Setting up repositories > > base 100% > > |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > updates > > 100% > > |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons > > > 100% > > |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras > > > 100% > > |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > comps.xml > > 100% > > |=========================| 914 kB 00:03 > Traceback (most recent call > > last): > > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in <module> > > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 92, > in > > main > > result, resultmsgs = do() > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 555, in > > doCommands > > self.doGroupSetup() > > File > > > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/__init__.py", > line 325, in > > doGroupSetup > > self.groupInfo.add(groupfile) > > File > > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/Errors.py", > line 55, in __init__ > > YumBaseError.__init__(self) > > File > > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/Errors.py", > line 25, in __init__ > > self.args = args > > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable > > > ===================================================== > > This looks identical to: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214119 > > ...if it is the best fix IMO is to get a much newer > yum version. > > -- > James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx > C String APIs use too much memory? ustr: length, ref > count, size and > read-only/fixed. Ave. 44% overhead over strdup(), > for 0-20B strings > http://www.and.org/ustr/ > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Thanks for your response. It is version number 2.4.0-3.1. Here is the output from dpkg -l yum: ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii yum 2.4.0-3.1 Advanced front-end for rpm _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
