Here's an interesting problem...
I set my ImageCreator cachedir to /var/yum/cache to share my x86_64
laptop's cache. Maybe this was a bad idea, but an interesting thing
happened.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp]# chroot-creator --target=/opt/ltsp/i386/
/etc/ltsp/ltsp-build-client-ks.cfg
Mounting /opt/ltsp/i386/ for chroot installation
Retrieving
http://homemirror.togami.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
...OK
Retrieving
http://homemirror.togami.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
...OK
The resulting chroot successfully completed installation, but chroot to
run pretty much anything including /bin/bash failed. x86_64 and i386
packages mixed together in some broken way.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# yum clean metadata
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "basearchonly" plugin
27 metadata files removed
Cleaning out the metadata made it work as expected.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp]# chroot-creator --target=/opt/ltsp/i386/
/etc/ltsp/ltsp-build-client-ks.cfg
Mounting /opt/ltsp/i386/ for chroot installation
Retrieving
http://homemirror.togami.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
...OK
Retrieving
http://homemirror.togami.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml
...OK
Retrieving
http://homemirror.togami.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
...OK
So there was some kind of conflict between my x86_64 host laptop and the
i386 chroot both trying to use the same yum cache directory. I'm
guessing it was a bad idea to try to do so and this is unsupported.
However I am very surprised that it didn't error out.
Are there any genuine bugs in anything I described above?
Shouldn't yum warn or error out when it sees the repodata arch conflict?
I'm a little saddened that I can't share the same yum cache directories,
because the RPMS themselves could peacefully co-exist if it were not for
the metadata.
Warren Togami
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