Re: [vserver] Can't install Centos guest after 5.3 upgrade

Thank you for providing this patch. I just tested it and it works
great. The only thing that I would suggest is incrementing the
Release line in the yum.spec file. This would not only make it a bit
easier to install, but also I noticed that doing a 'yum update', it
wants to overwrite my custom yum with the one from the mirrors that
has the same revision number. I'm assuming a bump in the Release
version would avoid this.

Thanks again.

John

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John A. Sullivan III
<jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> 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
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