[fedora-virt] febootstrap on fedora 12 ppc: updates don't work?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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-root
> febootstrap                                         | 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.

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