Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

[Xinhuan Zheng]

The web site looks great. But currently I don't have root access to the machine I'm trying to build rootfs. Is there a way to build rootfs as non-root user? I'm stuck at this point. I just know debian has rootstrap tool to build rootfs as non-root, & I found that there is a tool called rpmstrap, something similar to rootstrap. But rpmstrap just have centos3, centos4 scripts provided rootfs base installation. Does anyone know rhel3 base installation rpms? I appreciate anyone's help!!!

--xinhuan

On 1/6/06, Xinhuan Zheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks very much, Jim. I'll take a look at it. --xinhuan

On 1/6/06, Jim Carter < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:

> Does anyone know how to make a yum repository for, say, rhel3?

I found a reference, for Red Hat, that looks pretty complete:
    http://www.webmo.net/support/yum_repository.html

For those of us who aren't doing the hat thing, yum (Yellow Dog Updater) is
for managing and installing security patches, similar to SuSE's you (YaST
Online Update).  According to the docs it will work for any RPM-based
distro.

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