Bug 499369

Summary: febootstrap must create /var/lib/yum to work with older versions of yum
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: febootstrapAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: rjones, tcpip4000
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-05-06 11:54:56 UTC
For the version of yum in RHEL 5 / CentOS 5,
febootstrap must create /var/lib/yum in the initramfs
root before running yum.

(Originally reported by Charles Duffy).

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 15:14:47 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 2 Juan P. Daza P. 2009-12-06 18:42:13 UTC
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Updates to this package have been released since it was first reported. If you have time to update the package and re-test, please do so and report the results here. You can obtain the updated package by typing 'yum update  febootstrap' or using the graphical updater, Software Update.

Futhermore:
I created a fedora 12 filesystem with febootstrap and the /var/lib/yum directory was created by default.

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Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-12-07 10:41:56 UTC
I don't believe this is fixed even in the latest
febootstrap.  The fix is simple, just creating the
directory here:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap.sh;h=6b46ed4cdeae682a9ed859e7630f9ceb67e1dc64;hb=HEAD#l157

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 12:35:42 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 14:11:18 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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