On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 18:36 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> John Alberts wrote:
> > Just thought I would update everyone on my progress on getting yum
> > working with CentOS 5.3 for vserver.
> > I'm sorry to say, the yum 3.2.4 chroot patch does not work on the yum
> > 3.2.19-18 rpm. I've never attempted to patch a source tarball and I
> > don't know python, but I've spent quite a few hours trying to create a
> > patch that will work. There are quite a few differences between the
> > versions. Although I was able to create a patch and get a newly built
> > rpm installed, I haven't been able to get a working yum. There's
> > always some python errors, so I guess my patching skills really suck.
> > I may work on this a bit more, but for now, unfortunately, I have
> > other things I need to work on.
> >
> > John
>
> I just build yum-3.2.19-18.noarch.rpm.
>
> I don't have a system right now to test it on. If anyone wants to give
> it a whirl let me know. I'll email the RPM or if someone has a good
> drop point.
>
>
> Otherwise here is the process I used.
>
> Following (loosely) the instructions at http://linux-vserver.org/Yum-patch
>
> 1. Downloaded (wget) the src rpm from
>
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/5.3/os/SRPMS/yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm
>
>
> into /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
>
> 2. rpm -i yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm
>
> 3. cd /usr/src/SORUCES
>
> 4. Download (wget) the patch from
>
> http://svn.linux-vserver.org/svn/util-vserver/trunk/contrib/yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch
>
> 5. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC
>
> 6. vim yum.spec
> and added a line "Patch4: yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch"
> right after "Patch3: yum-ia64-multilib.patch (line 20)
> and a line "%patch4 -p1"
> right after "%patch3 -p1" (line 106)
>
> 7. rpmbuild -ba yum.spec
>
>
> There was one small hitch. To build on my non-Vserver, very yum/repo
> abused, recently updated to CentOS 5.3 workstation I had to install
> intltool to get the build to work.
>
>
> \\||/
> Rod
I can test it tonight! I was just getting ready to figure out how to
build it from SRPMS. I'd love to not have to do that. Send it my way
and I'll give it a go! - John
-- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular societyReceived on Tue Apr 14 03:36:46 2009