On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:48:32PM -0700, Anthony Foiani wrote:
Richard --
First, thanks for the excellent tool! I'm trying to use it to create a root FS for doing development on an embedded PPC board.
(Out of curiosity, just how much work do you think implementing a "--foreign" capability is? I happened to have an old PPC machine with an f12 install on it, so I dodged that bullet, but it would be fantastic to be able to build this root on my modern x86-64 workstation hardware...)
Anyway, I tried to use the "-u" flag to febootstrap (hoping / believing that it would provide my new root with the most up-to-date packages in my root), and it failed to find the update repo metadata. I tried it again, without the "-u" flag, and it mostly succeeded; it failed to install the "filesystem", and "nscd" (?, error has already scrolled off my terminal) was throwing "must be root" errors.
I can duplicate this to get you more info if it would help...
Anyway, the error message and a uname:
$ uname -a Linux shiny.int.foiani.com 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.ppc #1 Mon Dec 21 04:59:46 UTC 2009 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux
$ febootstrap \
-i bash -i 'boost*' -i 'g++' -i 'httpd' -i httpd-tools \ -u fedora-released-f12 \ fedora-12 f12-ppc-rootfebootstrap | 4.2 kB 00:00 febootstrap/primary_db | 12 MB 00:11 Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: febootstrap-updates. Please verify its path and try again
It cannot find the fedora-released-f12 repository for whatever reason. You should probably find out what path yum is trying to access.
chroot: failed to run command `rm': No such file or directory chroot: failed to run command `rm': No such file or directory
These are just a consequence of yum failing.
Rich.