Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jul 23 17:14:37 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:05 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
> Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> > We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have
> > built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything
> > with the updates merged in. We have run into 2 problems with this as
> > opposed to the original release image.
> >
> > First the version of yum available in updates currently is
> > incompatible with the version of anaconda. The problem is that this
> > version of yum does not create the headers directory and anaconda
> > assumes it will exist.
> >
> > anaconda-11.2.0.66-1.i386.rpm
> > yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
> >
> > To get round this we have reverted to yum-3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch.rpm for
> > now but will probably try out the development releases of anaconda and
> > yum next week.
>
> Confirmed.
>
> A little more detail:
>
> The directory /tmp/cache/headers is created, but empty.
> The directory /tmp/cache/anaconda-base-200707231006/headers was not
> created, and it is here that anaconda is looking for the headers. The
> first package that it tries to install will throw the error.
>
> Built using pungi-0.3.7-2 with a build system that worked great until
> the yum update to 3.2.1-1.
>
> Cross posting to fedora-buildsys-list.
>
3.2.2 has been released - 3.2.2-1.fc7 is in updates-testing. Please test
it.
-sv
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