Description of problem: when executed with the --rootpath option anaconda will fail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.2.101-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/sbin/anaconda --rootpath=/root/anaconda --method=http://server/tree Actual results: [root@ibm-alishan ~]# /usr/sbin/anaconda --rootpath=/root/anaconda --method=http://server/tree Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 614, in ? instClass = getInstClass(opts) File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 363, in getInstClass retval = cobject(flags.expert) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installclasses/rhel.py", line 163, in __init__ self.tasks = self.taskMap[productPath.lower()] KeyError: 'anaconda' Expected results: Anaconda runs and proceeds with installation. Additional info: Both anaconda and anaconda-runtime packages are installed. SELinux is in permissive mode. Host has the same OS version as in http://server/tree. Trying to install the packages in a directory. The above works for Fedora8 host/tree.
This does not happen because of changes made for RHEL5.2, thie bug appears in RHEL5.1.
Also appears in RHEL 5 GA
This works well in Fedora. Additionally to make this work in RHEL5 there would have to be a big effort and IMO it would not be worth it given the importance of the bug.