[Mageia-dev] automatic chroot install using urpmi

Thu Jun 9 14:12:50 CEST 2011

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 16:08 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
+> 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?
+> 
+> 
+
+Hmm I'm specify mirror, but it not helps:
+rpmbootstrap  -v centos-5.6-x86_64  /root/t
+http://mirror.yandex.ru/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/CentOS
+
+process stopped with:
+Debug value: 1
+Starting VE build for centos-5.6-x86_64
+Downloading package list from  ...
+
+
+-- 
+Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
+Selfip.Ru
+
+