Fedora from Mike Barnes

[Arc C.]

  I'm assuming yum is a set of python scripts, but still uses rpm. And that's 
what the problem was - I couldn't use rpm from Fedora while booted into RH7.2 
installation - somehow the old kernel prevented rpm from working. Until I 
could get my system to boot from the fedora's kernel, I couldn't use rpm.

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:25:29PM -0500, Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:
> > 3. Install packages with rpm -Uh --root=/mnt/root  This step was most
> > time consuming as I didn't want to install everything and at the same
> > time wanted to follow dependencies.
>
> Once you installed enough to get yum running after chroot then you could
> have use that to install the rest.  yum does resolve dependencies and it
> will run with a URL of 'file://' kind in its configuration where a
> content of that URL is an absolute path to a directory where your
> 'headers' are (and you can recreate that information at any moment with
> a help of yum-arch).
>
> > Unfortunately I didn't write down the order, but I guess it's part of
> > anaconda's config.
>
> The above would save you quite a bit of time. 'anaconda' actually
> installs using '--nodeps'.  A version of rpm used in Fedora has also an
> '--aid' option but that requires that 'rpmdb' package is installed.
>
>   Michal