Description of problem: Yum will not properly update with --installroot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.2.8 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' Yum creates '/maxtor/maxtor/var/lib/yum/transaction-done.2008-01-05.14:46.18' instead. I updated to the current yum for F7 to 3.2.8-2.fc7 errors still exist.
can you post the full log of the transaction?
Created attachment 290920 [details] Log, using script, of yum update
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okay, there are two items going on here: 1. Do you have selinux enabled? That may be the source of the scriptlet errors 2. This bug: could not open ts_done file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/maxtor/var/lib/yum/transaction-done.2008-01-06.09:35.32' has been fixed in upstream.
selinux was not enabled
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