[Mageia-dev] automatic chroot install using urpmi

Thu Jun 9 14:08:32 CEST 2011

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 05:47 +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
+> Vasiliy G Tolstov said on Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:26:35PM +0400:
+> 
+> > Thank's for answer. Very well. If i use basesystem-minimal and append
+> > grub systemd ntpd openssh-server and kernel, does that system can
+> > boot-up ?
+> 
+> You may want to look at rpmbootstrap, which was working fine for
+> mdv2010.2 and thus should easily work for mageia 1 as well. (part of
+> project-builder.org), this tools creates operational chroot for RPM
+> based distros, similar to debbootstrap and better than rinse or mock ,
+> as being multi distro (fedora, rhel, opensuse, mdv, mageia, ...)
+> 
+> I use it to create the chroots (VEs) needed by project-builder.org to
+> build its packages, zhen not using VMs.
+> 
+> HTH,
+> Bruno.
+
+I'm port project-builder to my linux distro - Exherbo. Fedora build
+success, but centos 5.6 with cmd line like:
+
+rpmbootstrap  -v centos-5.6-x86_64 -a
+acl,anacron,attr,audit,bc,diffutils,file,ftp,grub,groff,ipsec-tools,iptables,iptables-ipv6,kbd,
+jwhois,kernel-xen,man,man-pages,mgetty,ntp,passwd,quota,screen,checkpolicy,libselinux-utils,
+policycoreutils,selinux-policy-targeted,sysfsutils,sysklogd,system-config-securitylevel-tui,
+time,unzip,vim-enhanced,which,wget,openssh-clients,openssh,openssh-server,libselinux-utils,
+libselinux-python,at,setools,setuptool,rootfiles,setarch,yum-priorities,yum-downloadonly,yum-utils,exim /root/t
+
+can't determine mirror... if i specify version 5, it tries to install
+5.5 that not in kernel.org mirror... can i specify url where rpm lives?
+
+
+-- 
+Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
+Selfip.Ru
+
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