[Fedora-ia64-list] rawhide-ia64 status

[Zhan, Yi]

> From: fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Doug Chapman
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:04 AM
> To: ia64 Fedora Core Development
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] rawhide-ia64 status
> 
> Oh, and one other biggie I forgot to put on the list...
> 
> anaconda (the Fedora installer) is completely busted right now in
> rawhide.  This is typical for this stage of the release so the only
way
> to install rawhide is to start with F9 and point yum at a rawhide repo
> and update to it.
> 

Anaconda still fails when trying to read repo data under text mode
install, just after formatting hard disks. It said "Could not retrieve
mirrorlist
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=ia64" then
failed. It appears that anaconda doesn't assign value to repo.baseurl
correctly. No matter what url was given as the anaconda option
"repo=<url>" or "method=<url>", or what install method (http, ftp, nfs)
and location were specified, the repo.baseurl is NULL when anaconda
looking for the repodata. So it tries to use the default mirror list
setting instead, and fails on boxes behind firewall. This issue seems
not platform related. 

I will see how to fix this. 

Yi