Subject: Re: [vserver] Can't install Centos guest after 5.3 upgrade
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:36:47 -0700

John Alberts wrote:
> Just thought I would update everyone on my progress on getting yum
> working with CentOS 5.3 for vserver.
> I'm sorry to say, the yum 3.2.4 chroot patch does not work on the yum
> 3.2.19-18 rpm.  I've never attempted to patch a source tarball and I
> don't know python, but I've spent quite a few hours trying to create a
> patch that will work.  There are quite a few differences between the
> versions.  Although I was able to create a patch and get a newly built
> rpm installed, I haven't been able to get a working yum.  There's
> always some python errors, so I guess my patching skills really suck.
> I may work on this a bit more, but for now, unfortunately, I have
> other things I need to work on.
> 
> John

I just build  yum-3.2.19-18.noarch.rpm.

I don't have a system right now to test it on.  If anyone wants to give 
it a whirl let me know.  I'll email the RPM or if someone has a good 
drop point.


Otherwise here is the process I used.

Following (loosely) the instructions at http://linux-vserver.org/Yum-patch

1. Downloaded (wget) the src rpm from

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/5.3/os/SRPMS/yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm



into /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS

2. rpm -i yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm

3. cd /usr/src/SORUCES

4.  Download (wget) the patch from

http://svn.linux-vserver.org/svn/util-vserver/trunk/contrib/yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch

5. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC

6. vim yum.spec
	and added a line "Patch4: yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch"
	right after "Patch3: yum-ia64-multilib.patch (line 20)
	and a line "%patch4 -p1"
	right after "%patch3 -p1" (line 106)

7. rpmbuild -ba yum.spec


There was one small hitch.  To build on my non-Vserver, very yum/repo 
abused, recently updated to CentOS 5.3 workstation I had to install 
intltool to get the build to work.


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Rod
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