[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Problems using Rinse with CentOS 5

[Steve Kemp]

On Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 10:59:40 -0500, Nick Anderson wrote:

> So poking around some more I think this has something to do with yum 
> inside the chroot.
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/Null/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

  OK. To me that means the mirror should be updated on /etc/rinse/

> I ened up replacing all the $releasever with 5 and $arch with x86_64
> then I ran the rinse command on the same directory again. It seems it 
> did not hammer my modifications to the file because it found all the 
> repos it was looking for and started pulling down more packages.

  :)

> rinse --distribution centos-5 --directory=/tmp/centos5 --arch=amd64
> The rinse completed successfully and I can chroot into the directory.

  Great.

  At that point I'd expect xen-tools to work too, is that the case?

> So whats the best way to control what those variables would see when 
> running rinse?

  There is a postinstall script located within /usr/share/rinse IIRC
 that should be updated - unless you update the mirror to one that 
 doesn't give 404 in /etc/rinse/

Steve
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