[Fedora-livecd-list] Networking during install

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:08 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> I have an odd question. I am trying to build a livecd for a partner, and 
> hte rpm will not install via the livecd (net net is that the pre-scripts 
> which they use dont play well in a chrooted env.

I'm afraid to ask, but how so?  They shouldn't really have any way of
being able to tell.  

> I figured I would work around this by putting a wget int he post section 
> to get the rpm from the repo, and then install it locally. Yum gives me 
> this error:
> 
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database 
> environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> 
> 
> Any way around this? This is on the RHEL5 livecd tools.

The version of rpm outside and inside the chroot are different.  You can
do the cleanup by hand of 'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*db*' as long as you
know nothing from outside is accessing it at that point

Jeremy