Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:05 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
> Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> > We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have 
> > built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything 
> > with the updates merged in. We have run into 2 problems with this as 
> > opposed to the original release image.
> >
> > First the version of yum available in updates currently is 
> > incompatible with the version of anaconda. The problem is that this 
> > version of yum does not create the headers directory and anaconda 
> > assumes it will exist.
> >
> >     anaconda-11.2.0.66-1.i386.rpm
> >     yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
> >
> > To get round this we have reverted to yum-3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch.rpm for 
> > now but will probably try out the development releases of anaconda and 
> > yum next week.
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
> A little more detail:
> 
> The directory /tmp/cache/headers is created, but empty.
> The directory /tmp/cache/anaconda-base-200707231006/headers was not 
> created, and it is here that anaconda is looking for the headers.  The 
> first package that it tries to install will throw the error.
> 
> Built using pungi-0.3.7-2 with a build system that worked great until 
> the yum update to 3.2.1-1.
> 
> Cross posting to fedora-buildsys-list.
> 

3.2.2 has been released - 3.2.2-1.fc7 is in updates-testing. Please test
it.

-sv