I thought I remembered seeing some option in update-rpms to ignore the filesystem and just check deps based on listed packages.
Dave? Jason On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 23:28, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Ok, a bunch of problems has been fixed. You can get all the way up > through installing the server non-core RPMs (with a bunch of oda > uninitialized variable warnings). But now we have a new problem. > > When building the client image, we get two lists of RPMs: the > "oscarsample" RPM list for the distro and the list of RPMs from the > packages. Previously, we just used all those RPMs to build the image, and > that was that. > > Recally, however, that per the Tuesday phone call, I've removed "libaio" > from LAM's RPM list. So now the install-both-RPM-lists mechanism no > longer works -- because the LAM RPM dependencies fail because libaio is > missing. > > But wait -- DepMan should have caught this, right? > > Yikes! This is a place where DepMan integration was skipped. So I added > it. Buuutttt... not really. Here's the problem: > > update-rpms checks against both the cache and the installed system to come > up with a list of RPMs that need to be installed. Hence, you get a list > of RPMs suitable passing to "rpm -ivh ...". > > But that's no good because we're checking against the root filesystem, and > therefore we don't get a "pure" list of RPMs to install into an image > (i.e., there's lots of RPMs missing in the output because they're already > installed on the server). > > There's a chroot() function for DepMan so that you can check against > images. But there's no image yet, so this is useless. :-\ > > Anyone got any ideas here? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
