I'm having problems with the r6785 nightly (dated 23rd December) and am now
getting too deep / involved. I am using Fedora 8 x86_64 (with no updates)...
The first problem, which I managed to work around was needed oscar_server to
be added to /etc/hosts for the sanity check. Ticket 439 covers this but the
solution either isn't in the branch yet or doesn't solve all the issues.
I had the problem of an apparent inconsitency in the names of distro-related
directories in tftpboot. If I follow the documentation on the wiki and put the
RPMs in /tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 I get an "Unable to detect OS error on
line 128 of PackageSmart.pm" error. If I change line 74 packagesmart to use
fedora instead of fc I go round in circles. Letting it recognise fc as well as
fedora gets further.
I had to "yum install dhcp php-pear xinet xmlstarlet" to install from the
official online repo as none of these were on my DVD... are they really missing
from the distribution or is my dvd just broken?
When I run the install again, there seem to be yet more packages missing:
"yum install perl-XML-Simple perl-HTML-Tree perl-Tk perl-Qt" but perl-Qt fails
to install - does this need building for Fedora 8?
At this point I decided I might have gone too far down this rabbit hole
already and thought it best to get some feedback. Please let me know if I need
to go back a few steps, or what the next step might be.
Seasons Greetings,
Steve.
PS: I tried renaming the distro directory to fc-8-x86_64 but then
tftpboot-check.pl fails "ERROR: Impossible to find a local or online repository
in /tftpboot for the distro fedora-8-x86_64" so I changed line 19 of
tftpboot-check.pl to use the compat_distro when determining the distro_id. This
gets me further but wizard_prep keeps recreating the
/tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 directory (which tftfboot-check then complains
is empty the second time around!)
Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve:
On 12/17/07, Steven Blackburn wrote:
> I have tried a nightly from a week or so ago on FC8 x86_64 but ran into some
> problems which were reported earlier on the list... like the fedora repo not
> being found and missing an example fc8 rpm list. Also, I had problems
rpm list aren't that big of a deal -- I usually just copy the previous
version's.
> updating the yume prereqs file to add fedora 8 to the 5|6|7 pattern. I
> stopped trying when the install complained about not being able to install
> python-elementtree (mentioned in the yume prereq file, IIRC).
>
> If Bernard can check in the files, and if they make it to a nightly, I can
> check out the current state of the 5-1 branch on FC8 x86_64.
I try not to check in RPMs which are already included in the distro --
however, for some reason I think Fedora 8 stopped shipping
python-elementtree.
It would be great if you can help us verify support -- however, my
work with f8-i386 would most definitely help with your endeavor on
x86_64, but it definitely does not mean support as you'll still need
to rebuild all the RPMs.
Ask us questions if you run into issues, we'll help you out.
I'll try to check in my changes tonight.
Cheers,
Bernard
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