On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 07:51 -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > On 8/12/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- when using RPM to install centos-release initially ... use the --root function like this: rpm -ivh --root $LIVE centos-release That SHOULD work. I haven't studied John's scripts .. but also important is properly mounting /dev, /proc, /sys into the chroot as well.
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