Hello, This is now resolved via the YUM mailing list.
There is a deficeincy in the yum documentation. The yum man pages fail to detail the required files and directory structures that are required to. PRE-EXIST in the —installroot path. 'yum —installroot' could not substitute the proper $slreleasever value into the output URL because the expected directories and files, located ‘<INSTALL_ROOT>/etc/yum/vars/….’, did not exist. By placing the proper config etc/... files and directories into the INSTALL_ROOT path yum was able to generate the base file system. With any luck the man pages will be updated to include this important information. Peter > On Jan 28, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Peter Willis <pwil...@aslenv.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am attempting to build an exported file system for diskless nodes. > > My distribution is SL 7.7 and the command I am using is: > > yum install @Base kernel dracut-network nfs-utils --installroot=/node_root > --releasever=/ > > The repository problem manifests as a mistranslation of the '$slreleasever' > environment variable. > > This makes all the FTP repositories used by YUM malformed. The value > '$slreleasever' appears to be inserted to the URLs rather than the proper > value '7x'. Hence the URLs read: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ftp.scientificlinux.org_linux_scientific_-2524slreleasever_x86-5F64_os_Packages_&d=DwIFAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=_XPWQWNwUeu0ZFKH219isUWT6M2TPEo7FIuWwhY0wjM&s=-7jDic-Wp04OefvpIx3KLdPeLmRh7bYielU8ZO8vb2w&e= > ..... > > Rather than : > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ftp.scientificlinux.org_linux_scientific_7x_x86-5F64_os_Packages_&d=DwIFAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=_XPWQWNwUeu0ZFKH219isUWT6M2TPEo7FIuWwhY0wjM&s=UKg8rHPPmAJWsAUGj3Sw9Xgc2ybKBgIYkQkEmYV6HmU&e= > > > > Has anyone encountered this issue with yum before? > > Is there a solution? > > I have tried 'yum clean all' and friends. > > Thanks for any help, > > pwillis
