Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

[Howard Wilkinson]

David Timms wrote:
> Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> ...
>> 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
> Which headers directory ? {the dvd/everything repo doesn't have such a 
> folder}
The headers directory is populated (referenced?) by anaconda during a 
kickstart only and is expected to have been created by yum, not sure 
what it is used for but I found an obscure references to this in one of 
the bulletin boards and tested it out. I have not tried the development 
combination yet as this requires some serious rebuilding in our environment.
>
>> 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.
> It's very close {< week?} to freeze time for next fedora, if this an 
> issue, prompt bugzilla check/report would be good.
Where do I put this some more pointers would be helpful?
>
>> More worrying is a problem with dependencies in building the kernel 
>> initrd images. The newly built Everything regime has the latest 
>> kernel - kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 - as available from updates.
> I don't think this is correct:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/ 
>
> kernel*-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.*.rpm
>
> However, if you have inserted the newer kernel yourself, or are making 
> updates repo available during the install then that is different.
I have taken the Everything build and replaced the packages in the image 
with those available in updates from a week ago (or thereabouts) and 
then rebuilt the images so I can kickstart directly from it. We use NFS 
based builds so additional repositories are a problem. Same issue arises 
with the older kernel if I rebuild the image so the pkgorder is not 
running with enough arguments I think (worked this out last night) now 
need to confirm that I can force mdadm to be loaded earlier.
>
> In the kickstart.cfg can you request particular version install:
> kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.*.rpm ?
I already forced the new kernel by removing the old one and allowing the 
new one to be the only one in the set.
>
> This issue might also be checked/reported in bugzilla. Developers 
> expected that people might want to enable repos during install, but 
> perhaps had not considered the updates repo being active, and hence 
> installing only the updated kernel/yum. IMHO ideally, I would want the 
> release kernel and the latest released update kernel installed. If you 
> use this process without the updates repo active, does it work ?
>
>> But when the kickstart install runs the mkinitrd cannot find 
>> /sbin/mdadm as the mdadm package is not a dependency of the kernel 
>> (and should not be for all builds but ....[1]) This has the effect of 
>> allowing the build to complete but when the system reboots LVM cannot 
>> find the logical volume groups because the raid has not started.
>>
>>    /We build our systems with mirrored boot partitions on /dev/md0 and
>>    mirrored /dev/md1 on the remainder of the disc with logical volumes
>>    on this portion of the disc including the root partition. Hence the
>>    problem above.[1]/
>>
>> To get round this we are rebuilding the kernel to require the mdadm 
>> package - but this is really not what we should be doing. Somewhere 
>> in the RPM, YUM, Anaconda, regime we need to be able to specify that 
>> mdadm (and lvm2) needs to be installed prior to the kernel 
>> installation, only for our particular configurations not in general. 
>> Any ideas anybody?
> I tried the soft raid /boot before in fc5 and found it no go. From 
> memory there was work planned for either f7 or f8 to make this 
> possible. Perhaps checkout http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2ToDo
We have had this configuration working since FC4 and build all of our 
systems this way!
>
> DaveT.
>
SO how do I feed package order data into the buildinstallimage script - 
this may fix the second problem.

Howard

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