On 8/12/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I downloaded the latest centos-release rpm and tried to install it into $LIVE with rpm relocate feature. This has to be done with --force as rpm thinks it is already installed. Despite the rpm being "no relocatable" as per "rpm -qpi", this works, populating $LIVE/etc and friends.
However, after this, yum keeps giving the same error as before.
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:49 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:
> "Eduardo Grosclaude" <eduardo.grosclaude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Great! I was just looking for this! Unfortunately there seems to be
> >something missing: by the time we run the first yum command, there's no
> >distroverpkg package installed under $LIVE to query for $releasever.
> >---------------
> >Should the user install centos-release RPM with prefix equal to $LIVE
> >beforehand?
> >Or is there any other easy but correct way to pass this variable to yum?
>
> I got around this by editing my yum repo files to replace $releasever
> with 4. Which is horrible, so I too would like to know if there's a
> better way.
>
> I still can't get it to work, though. I do get about 90MB of stuff
> installed, as promised, but there are lots of '%post(...) scriptlet
> failed' messages during the installation. Although many things are
> installed into the chroot area there are clearly some things missing.
> The first command I typed in the chroot was 'ls', but /bin/ls isn't
> there even though, according to yum.log, coreutils was installed.
>
> Actually, I was able to scroll back far enough to see this during the
> installation:
>
> error: %pre(coreutils-5.2.1-31.2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping coreutils-5.2.1-31.2
>
> Ron
If you can install centos-release into the chroot, it should then return
4.
Or editing the yum repo file and addding 4 is OK.
I downloaded the latest centos-release rpm and tried to install it into $LIVE with rpm relocate feature. This has to be done with --force as rpm thinks it is already installed. Despite the rpm being "no relocatable" as per "rpm -qpi", this works, populating $LIVE/etc and friends.
However, after this, yum keeps giving the same error as before.
Brutally replacing $releasever by "4" in CentOS-Base.repo seems to convince yum to work.
But then doing "yum -c $LIVE/etc/yum.conf --installroot=$LIVE install centos-release" proceeds to _install_ the same package that rpm had previously _installed_... hmmmm... :P
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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina
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