Mock chroot question

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

John Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 03:29, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>
>   
>> Caveat: the chroot rpm database doesn't seem to play nice with the 
>> chroot rpm command [ different db version? ]
>> What can I do to fix this issue - I want to update my chroot rpms, and 
>> install new ones [ like yum, and vi ].
>>     
>
> After the initial load, from the top of the chroot do:
>
> rm -f ./var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> setarch i386 /usr/sbin/chroot . rpm --rebuilddb
>
> >From that point on use the yum/rpm command inside the chroot to
> manipulate packages.
>   
Thank you, this solves the problem. I also had to copy over the selinux 
policy/file_contexts, otherwise rpm would fail in setxattr* (with 
undocumented EINVAL).