Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

[Phil Meyer <pmeyer themeyerfarm com>]

Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have 
> built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything 
> with the updates merged in. We have run into 2 problems with this as 
> opposed to the original release image.
>
> First the version of yum available in updates currently is 
> incompatible with the version of anaconda. The problem is that this 
> version of yum does not create the headers directory and anaconda 
> assumes it will exist.
>
>     anaconda-11.2.0.66-1.i386.rpm
>     yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
>
> To get round this we have reverted to yum-3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch.rpm for 
> now but will probably try out the development releases of anaconda and 
> yum next week.

Confirmed.

A little more detail:

The directory /tmp/cache/headers is created, but empty.
The directory /tmp/cache/anaconda-base-200707231006/headers was not 
created, and it is here that anaconda is looking for the headers.  The 
first package that it tries to install will throw the error.

Built using pungi-0.3.7-2 with a build system that worked great until 
the yum update to 3.2.1-1.

Cross posting to fedora-buildsys-list.