Installing a very old Fedora (FC6) in a chroot?

[Don Dutile]

On 06/12/2013 08:56 AM, Björn Esser wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.06.2013, 08:44 -0400 schrieb Martin Langhoff:
>> To test / bench / verify old behaviour of PHP4, I need to install FC6
>> in a chroot.
>>
>> Mock doesn't seem to work, given a reasoanble config file pointing to
>> the archive repo. Are there any good / recommended alternatives? Or is
>> mock expected to work?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> m
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>
> Hello Martin!
>
> If there was yum in fc6 (I don't know) you can setup a
yum was in fc6 b/c it was the basis for rhel5, and rhel5
inherited its yum from fc6.

> yum.repos.d-config for fc6 and do something:
>
>    yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fc6 --installroot="$chroot_dir" \
>    --nogpgcheck -y install yum
>
> mount all needed:
>
>    mount -t proc foo $chroot_dir/proc
>    mount -t sysfs foo $chrrot_dir/sys
>    chroot $chroot_dir /bin/bash --login
>
> remove rpm-database and related stuff afterwards and reinit:
>
>    cd /var/lib/rpm&&  rm -rf *&&  rpm --initdb
>
> re-populate rpmdb with installed pkgs:
>
>    yum install yum
>
> Afterwards you can setup everything else.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>    Björn
>
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