Re: genhdlist borked on U3beta

[csieh <csieh fnal gov>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Garrick Staples wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:10:01PM -0700, Christopher McCrory alleged:
> > Hello...
> > 
> > I am used to being able to remove old rpms and add Eratta rpms to
> > RedHat/RPMS then run /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist `pwd` to
> > regenerate base/hdlist{,2} .  WIth U2 this wasn't working for me
> > anymore.  At first I thought it was my ks.cfg setup.  But I just tried
> > with RHEL3 U3beta.  no changes, just
> > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /var/ftp .  With a minimal install
> > , reboot, no go.  am I missing some new arguments?
> > 
> > The new install tree seems to have lost it's dependency information. 
> > all rpms are installed alphabetically.  for instance 'shadow-utils'
> > gets installed rather late, causing many packages to not install
> > correctly since /usr/sbin/adduer doesn't exist.  no kernel either,
> > which is why bootup fails :|
> > 
> > Is this a bug or am I missing something?
> 
> You need to generate the fileorder list and pass that to genhdlist.  I do this
> in two passes..
> 
> export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
> rhroot=/some/nifty/place
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist $rhroot
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $rhroot i386 > $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder $rhroot
> 
> 

RedHat changed something in the python rpm library to make the old way not 
work any more.  From packages.py

------------------------------------------------------------------------
depcheck = DependencyChecker(id.grpset)
    if not id.grpset.hdrlist.preordered():
        log ("WARNING: not all packages in hdlist had order tag")
        # have to call ts.check before ts.order() to set up the alIndex
        ts.check(depcheck.callback)
        ts.order()
    else:
        ts.check(depcheck.callback)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Before Update 2 if you had not used --fileorder with genhdlist the 
installer (packages.py in this case) would go to the "true" case in the 
above code.  With Update 2 it still goes to the "true" case but the 
ts.order() does not seem to work .  Seems like it is still broken in 
Update 3.  I suspect RedHat does not know it is broken as they always use 
--fileorder with genhdlist.  

-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory