[rhn-users] Problem running "rpm --root"

[Schirmer Joe]

I'm running a brand-new Enterprise 4 system and attempting to create a
clean chrooted environment in a directory created from RPMs. In order to
do this I use the '--root' option to install everthing relative to the
specified directory.

The following is run as root:

% rpm --root ~test/chrootenv --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY % rpm
--root ~test/chrootenv -I ~test/RPMdir/setup-2.5.37-1.3.noarch.rpm
% rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i ~test/RPMdir/filesystem-2.3.0-1.i386.rpm
% rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i ~test/RPMdir/basesystem-8.0-4.noarch.rpm
% rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i
~test/RPMdir/tzdata-2005m-1.EL4.noarch.rpm
% rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i
~test/RPMdir/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386.rpm
error: %post(glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status
255 %

When I run the above using the '-vv' option to print out information I
get the following snipet:

D: install: %post(glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386) asynchronous scriptlet
start
D: install: %post(glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386)
execv(/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive) pid 11990
D: install: waitpid(11990) rc 11990 status ff00 secs 0.000
error: %post(glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status
255

If I do a chroot command to run "/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive" in the
chroot environment it runs successfully. It appears as if the execv may
not be running in the chrooted environment properly.

This occurs for quite a few RPMs when I continue with the instalation of
the clean chrooted environment for both pre and post install scriptlets.
The pre-install scriptlets prevent the package from being installed such
that I am stuck.

This method worked well on our RedHat 9 system. So I'm not sure if this
is a problem with the new version of rpm (rpm-4.2-0.69 on RH9 vs.
rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl on Enterprise 4) or what. Does anybody have any
suggestions?

 
R. Joe Schirmer
Software Engineering Lead
Crane Aerospace and Electronics
Signal Technology, Wireless Monitoring Solutions (WMS)
972-964-5178 x129
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