Bug 740073

Summary: anaconda ignores dependencies from repository on the DVD
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Vadym Chepkov <vchepkov>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Description Vadym Chepkov 2011-09-20 20:36:45 UTC 
We have observed the same behavior with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 5.7

In order to automate secure deployment , we added "updates" directory to the DVD image with the following content:

# ls -1 updates
httpd-2.2.3-53.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.i686.rpm
repodata

then in kickstart file we added reference to this repository:

repo --name=updates --baseurl=file:///mnt/source/updates

the updates are being installed, but they disregard any dependencies in RPM, I checked SRMS:

$ grep httpd  mod_nss.spec
Requires(pre): httpd

$ grep httpd php53.spec 
Requires(pre): httpd

but updated httpd is installed out of order, which brakes both php53 and mod_nss:

# egrep "httpd|php53|mod_nss" /root/install.log
Installing mod_nss-1.0.8-4.el5_6.1.i386
error: %post(mod_nss-1.0.8-4.el5_6.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
Installing php53-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.i386
Installing httpd-2.2.3-53.el5_7.1.i386


Interestingly enough, if kickstart uses  external repository (http:// or ftp://) all is installed in the proper order.
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