On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:35:39 -0800
CLOSE Dave <Dave.Close(a)us.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
The subject message sometimes appears on the installation source
entry from anaconda. But I have never been able to find a good way to
learn just what the error is. Sure, sometimes it's obvious: the URL
is wrong. But other times everything seems to be correct but still
the error persists. I'm looking for a checklist of possible causes or
a log entry that corresponds to the problem.
In my present effort, I'm attempting to use a local mirror of the
fedora-updates repository (in addition to local mirrors of the fedora
and other repositories). I believe the mirror is correct and
complete. The machine being installed has no trouble accessing the
repo from an F2 shell while anaconda is running. Looking through the
anaconda logs, I find lots of references to the update repository but
no errors.
What can cause this error message? And how do I find out what caused
it in this instance?
I think anaconda is a python application, so you should be able to get
the source code and search it for the error message. You can find the
src.rpm here.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2
If you then install the rpmbuild dependencies
# sudo dnf install rpmdevtools
you should be able to do
rpmdev-setuptree
rpm -ivh [anaconda src.rpm package name] # as user, *not* root
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild -bp anaconda.spec
cd ../BUILD/[anaconda version]
and be in the source.
There used to be a wiki page describing how to do this for src rpm at
fedoraproject.org. All I find is the following on how to build a
kernel.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
There is a special mailing list for anaconda development. You can read
it on
gmane.org, gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel. I don't see the
signup address, but you can probably find it with a search. If you open
a bugzilla against anaconda with your problems at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
it will probably get to those developers.