Re: genhdlist borked on U3beta

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc gmail com>]

Hello...


On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:16:34 -0700, Garrick Staples <garrick usc edu> 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

That did the trick!  , thanks


> 
> --
> Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
> University of Southern California
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Christopher McCrory
 "The guy that keeps the servers running"