Installing from an Updated list of RPMS using NFS

[Paul Howarth]

Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 07:12, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> 
>>Tony Molloy wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I want to install FC3 using the latest RPMS over NFS. This means I
>>>have to build an updated set of RPMS on my NFS exported partition.
>>>This worked with no problems on FC2.
>>>
>>>I copy the FC3 disks to my NFS exported partition. Copy over the
>>>updated version of the RPMS. Tidy up the  Fedora/RPMS directory
>>>removing any duplicated RPMS.
>>
>>I use a perl script for this:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.crc.dk/pub/fedora/update/mergedvd.pl
> 
> 
> Hi 
> 
> It's working, thank's to all who replied. Mogens, that script was the 
> lifesaver. The format for the second genhdlist command was what I was 
> missing.
> 
> Just one question on the buildinstall command. I didn't actually need it 
> but when I ran it I got the following error.
> 
> [root at richmond mnt]# buildinstall --pkgorder /mnt/pkgorder.lst --version 
> 3 --product \"Fedora Core\" --release \"Fedora Core 3\" --prodpath 
> Fedora  /mnt
> Usage: buildinstall [--comp <component>] [--pkgorder <file>] [--version 
> <version>] [--product <product>] [--release <comment>] [--prodpath 
> <path>] [--discs <discstring>] <root>
> 
> Any ideas.

Looks like bad quoting to me:

\"Fedora Core\"

is two parameters, one with a quote mark at the start of the word and 
one with a quote mark at the end.

Perhaps it should have been:

buildinstall --pkgorder /mnt/pkgorder.lst \
	--version 3 \
	--product '"Fedora Core"' \
	--release '"Fedora Core 3"' \
	--prodpath Fedora \
	/mnt

(if the quotes were wanted as part of the product and release), or:

buildinstall --pkgorder /mnt/pkgorder.lst \
	--version 3 \
	--product "Fedora Core" \
	--release "Fedora Core 3" \
	--prodpath Fedora \
	/mnt

if they weren't.

Paul.