Bug 427636 - Yum will not properly update with --installroot
Summary: Yum will not properly update with --installroot
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 7
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-05 23:41 UTC by Nic Stevens
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-06 00:12:58 UTC

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Description Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 23:41:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
Yum will not properly update with --installroot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.5

How reproducible:
mount newly installed system on other media and update from installed system.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F7 on new media
2. Boot up existing F7 installation
4. mount new installation root
3. run yum --installroot=/mountpoint
  
Actual results:
Yum cannot perform it's post-install scripts and errors out with messages like:
error: %post(libsmbclient-3.0.28-0.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
could not open ts_done file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/maxtor/var/lib/yum/transaction-done.2008-01-05.14:46.18'


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 23:47:08 UTC 
Step 2 should be: yum --installrooot=/mountpoint update
Comment 2 Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 23:48:54 UTC 
(sorry) 

Additional: the file that yum is complaining of is 
    /maxtor/var/lib/yum/transaction-done.2008-01-05.14:46.18
The actual file is created as
    /maxtor/maxtor/var/lib/yum/transaction-done.2008-01-05.14:46.18
Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2008-01-06 00:12:58 UTC 
3.2.5 is out of date. Please update to 3.2.8-2.fc7 and try it again. Thank you!
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