libguestfs and yum

[David Huff]

Anyone see any issues with libguestfs and yum working weirdly??

If I mount an disk image with guestfish and try to install new packages
with yum, it gives rpmdb errors.  However if I "launch" the disk images
as a guest in a fill virt container like qemu, there are no rpmdb error
and I can install new packages with yum....

Also, if I remove the rpmdb and rebuild via guestfish, then yum seems to
be working fine....

command "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.004"
command "rpm --rebuilddb"

Then yum seems to work:

command "yum install vim-enhanced"

It looks like yum is still using something outside of guestfish, anyone
 have any comments/ideas on this??

Thanks,
David

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:50:32PM -0400, David Huff wrote:
> Anyone see any issues with libguestfs and yum working weirdly??
>
> If I mount an disk image with guestfish and try to install new packages
> with yum, it gives rpmdb errors.  However if I "launch" the disk images
> as a guest in a fill virt container like qemu, there are no rpmdb error
> and I can install new packages with yum....
>
> Also, if I remove the rpmdb and rebuild via guestfish, then yum seems to
> be working fine....
>
> command "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.004"
> command "rpm --rebuilddb"
>
> Then yum seems to work:
>
> command "yum install vim-enhanced"
>
> It looks like yum is still using something outside of guestfish, anyone
>  have any comments/ideas on this??

Strange one.  I can tell you that yum cannot be using anything
'outside' the appliance.

Rich.