Thanks Herbert. I'll give that a try.
John
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:11PM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
>> Herbert,
>
>> Sorry. I meant to also mention that I looked into patching yum.
>> I wasn't really sure how to do it.
>
>> I found patches in /usr/share/doc/util-vserver-build-0.30.216/
>> with the latest version being yum-3.2.4-chroot.patch.
>
> that's good ...
>
>> It looks like I have a newer version of yum, because
>> yum --version shows:
>> [root@vserver util-vserver-build-0.30.216]# yum --version
>> 3.2.19
>> Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5.x86_64 at 2008-09-09 17:47
>> Built : [] at 2008-05-24 19:52
>> Committed: James Antill <james.antill@redhat.com> at 2008-01-18 22:00
>>
>> Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-9.el5.x86_64 at 2009-04-02 14:17
>> Built : [] at 2009-01-21 08:04
>> Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> at 2008-12-02 22:00
>>
>> Installed: yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch at 2009-04-02 14:49
>> Built : [] at 2009-01-22 10:53
>> Committed: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org> at 2009-01-22 22:00
>
> if the patch above fails for that one, you might
> ask Daniel nicely to update the patch once again
>
>> How would I go about patching yum?
>
> get the source (wget, curl, etc ...), apply the patch
> with patch (e.g. cd /path/to/source; patch -p1 </path/to/patch),
> configure, compile, install (you might do all that in an
> RPM spec file, to get a proper package too)
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
>
>> Thanks
>> John
>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:47:00AM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
>> >> Hi. I have a CentOS host that I recently upgraded from 5.1 to 5.3.
>> >> All of the guests that I currently have on their have been built the
>> >> same way (using the yum build method). Today, and I get a warning at
>> >> the beginning about yum needing to be patched. It then tries to build
>> >> the guest but fails. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this
>> >> please?
>> >
>> > well, my guess would be to patch yum :)
>> >
>> >> Here's the output of trying to install a guest:
>> >>
>> >> [root@vserver vservers]# vserver chidns01lsna build -m yum --context
>> >> 1002 --hostname chidns01lsna.mydomain.com --interface eth0:10.1.1.1/24
>> >> -- -d centos5
>> >> You are using a version of yum which is insecure and broken in chroot
>> >> related operations; either apply the patches shipped in the 'contrib/'
>> >> directory of util-vserver, or ask the author of yum to apply them
>> >> (preferred).
>> >
>> > sounds quite descriptive to me ... no?
>> >
>> >> In the meantime, 'vyum' will continue with dirty hacks which might not
>> >> work when the vserver is running and local DOS attacks are possible.
>> >
>> > best,
>> > Herbert
>> >
>> >> Execution will continue in 5 seconds...
>> >>
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >> Package Arch Version Repository Size
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >> Installing:
>> >> glibc x86_64 2.5-34 base 4.7 M
>> >> glibc i686 2.5-34 base 5.2 M
>> >> Installing for dependencies:
>> >> basesystem noarch 8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos base 2.8 k
>> >> filesystem x86_64 2.4.0-2.el5.centos base 117 k
>> >> glibc-common x86_64 2.5-34 base 16 M
>> >> libgcc x86_64 4.1.2-44.el5 base 96 k
>> >> setup noarch 2.5.58-4.el5 base 124 k
>> >> tzdata noarch 2008i-1.el5 base 756 k
>> >>
>> >> Transaction Summary
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >> Install 8 Package(s)
>> >> Update 0 Package(s)
>> >> Remove 0 Package(s)
>> >>
>> >> Total download size: 27 M
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 366, in callback
>> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 400,
>> >> in _transStart
>> >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 343, in ts_all
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
>> >> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/vservers/chidns01lsna/..'
>> >> error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
>> >> <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x110c758>> failed, aborting!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> John Alberts
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Alberts
>
-- John AlbertsReceived on Mon Apr 6 16:22:02 2009