[rhn-users] Problem running "rpm --root"

[Schirmer Joe]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Ogulin
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:31 PM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Problem running "rpm --root"
> 
> Schirmer Joe wrote:
> > The following is run as root:
> > 
> > % rpm --root ~test/chrootenv --import 
> /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY % rpm 
> > --root ~test/chrootenv -I ~test/RPMdir/setup-2.5.37-1.3.noarch.rpm
> > % rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i 
> > ~test/RPMdir/filesystem-2.3.0-1.i386.rpm
> > % rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i 
> > ~test/RPMdir/basesystem-8.0-4.noarch.rpm
> > % rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i
> > ~test/RPMdir/tzdata-2005m-1.EL4.noarch.rpm
> > % rpm --root ~test/chrootenv -i
> > ~test/RPMdir/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386.rpm
> > error: %post(glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13.i386) scriptlet failed, exit 
> > status
> > 255 %
> [snip]
> > This method worked well on our RedHat 9 system. So I'm not sure if 
> > this is a problem with the new version of rpm (rpm-4.2-0.69 
> on RH9 vs.
> > rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl on Enterprise 4) or what. Does anybody have any 
> > suggestions?
> 
> Try:
> 	rpm --root=~test/chrootenv --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
> 
> Note the option is "--root=<dir>"

The I've tried it with and without the equal sign and the both work
equally as well.  The rpm commands work as expected until the rpm tries
to do a pre-install or post-install script which is when I get the
error.  My the investigation I've done so far it appears as if rpm is
not executing the pre or post-install scripts in a chrooted environment
as the man page claims it does.

Thanks,

--Joe
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