Bug 427636 – Yum will not properly update with --installroot

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Bug 427636 - Yum will not properly update with --installroot

Summary:	Yum will not properly update with --installroot

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	yum (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Seth Vidal
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-01-05 18:41 EST by Nic Stevens
Modified:	2014-01-21 18:01 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	3.2.8-2
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Last Closed:	2008-01-05 19:12:58 EST
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Description Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 18:41:34 EST

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'


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Comment 1 Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 18:47:08 EST

Step 2 should be: yum --installrooot=/mountpoint update

Comment 2 Nic Stevens 2008-01-05 18:48:54 EST

(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 2008-01-05 19:12:58 EST

3.2.5 is out of date.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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