Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14087
Alpha distribution missing key RPMS!!!
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
The Alpha CDROM is missing the tetex-fonts-1.0.7-5.alpha.rpm and more importantly the time-1.7-11.alpha.rpm. During the install, the GUI hangs and in the console I get a python traceback stating that the RPMs were missing. Sure enough, they are not on the CD. The tetex problem can be worked around by reinstalling and unselecting the TeX related packages from the individual package selection screen. But the time package can NOT be deselected (in fact, you get it by default as it's a critical base package). So needless to say, you can't do an Alpha install with the CD as shipped. :-( Guess I'll have to wait for the beta-5 CD to get the updates. Are these missing RPMs in rawhide?
Update: The problem is much worse than I expected. There are *lots* of missing packages, many of them critical, at least if you want X. tk is missing, an xinitrc for example. Do a diff of packages from the CD's you shipped with what you have on ftp.beta.redhat.com and you'll see. I am filling in the gaps by downloading the missing packages, but *please* put these on the next CD.
It's on CD 2.
OK, it's not a bug...I figured out (after downloading the missing packages) that the rest were on CD2. In that case, the bug is that the installer hangs and dumps a python traceback instead of prompting for CD2. Also, I did the install off an NFS mounted CD-ROM from another machine on the network. How would that work during a multi-CD install?
Copy all RedHat/RPMS/* to the RedHat/RPMS directory on the NFS server. What is the traceback?
That's how I got it to install. I copied all the RPMs (on both CDs) into an NFS mounted directory and the install proceeded without a hitch. What I'm saying though, is that multi-CD installs do not seem to be working. Python dumps a traceback to the console saying that it can't find such-and-such an RPM. What it *should* do upon not finding the RPM is prompt for another CD. Since CD-ROM installs are broken on Alpha's anyway I guess it's a moot point. I'm sticking to NFS installs off a hard disk for now.
you realize that it is impossible to do multicd installs when you nfs mount the cdrom drive? The nfs server makes the drive always busy, so it's impossible to unmount and eject the CD to replace it with the next.