Xavier Montagutelli <xavier.montagutelli@unilim.fr> wrote on 2009-Aug-27: > You are using a version of yum which is insecure and broken in chroot > related operations; either apply the patches shipped in the 'contrib/' > [..] > Transaction Summary > =================================================================================================================================================== > Install 8 Package(s) > Update 0 Package(s) > Remove 0 Package(s) > > Total download size: 28 M > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897 > Importing GPG key 0xE8562897 "CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key) > <centos-5-key@centos.org>" from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY- > CentOS-5 First I would definitely patch your version of yum. Details can be found here. http://linux-vserver.org/Yum-patch Find the one that most closely matches your version of yum and try it. I have yum 3.2.12 and the 3.2.19 patch applied cleanly. Then here's what I did on my debian lenny host to get it working. Find the CentOS-Base.repo" for CentOS 5 that came with your util-versers package. Mine is at: /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/centos5/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Edit the file and change each instance of the '$basearch' variable to be your actual architecture - 'x86_64' in my case. Then UN-comment all the "baseurl" lines. Finally change all the "gpgcheck=1" lines to be "=0". (I don't actually know if that's necessary, but I did it and it worked. Feel free to try it without the change and see what happens.) Then try the build command again. As I said, I can build CentOS 5 guests on my debian lenny host after those changes. But YMMV, as they say. HTH Jeff Jansen