Bug 105691

Summary:	--tree=<...> does not appear to work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski>
Component:	redhat-config-packages	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2003-10-14 21:58:10 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Gene Czarcinski 2003-09-26 16:22:59 UTC

Description of problem:

If I do 
   redhat-config-packages  --isodir=<dir_where_iso_images_are>
then the rpms are found and can be installed.

However, if I do
   redhat-config-packages  --tree=<...>
then I get a message "The path <...> does not look like a valid installation
source."

I have built a tree where I copied all of the files from the iso images.  I have
then used this tree to perform installs.  I have tried pointing --tree= to that
path that I use for NFS installs, to the RedHat direcotry under it and to the
RedHat/RPMS directory ... nothing works.

BTW, this tree was nfs mounted on the Fedora system.

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2003-09-26 17:35:22 UTC

OK, I found the problem ... I was missing the .discinfo file.

I am going to leave this open because I believe that if the error message had
been a bit clearer (saying that the .discinfo file was missing), the "problem"
could have been easier to solve.  The description of building the tree in the
README file does not mention the .discinfo file.  Furthermore, the .discinfo
file does not appear to be needed by anaconda to do an install from the tree.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-10-14 21:58:10 UTC

Updated readme