From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: Anaconda dumped with rpm:error match tag missing after doing a genhdlist on an modified and unmodified copy of cdrom for network installs How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* ~/cd1 2. cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* ~/cd2 - the second cd 3. add rpm to /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS 4. /usr/lib/anaconda/genhdlist --withnumbers --hdlist ~/cd1/RedHat/RPMS/base/hdinst ~/cd1 ~/cd2 5. do a nfs install to this machine 6. error is generated Actual Results: you really want the floppy dump? Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1773, in doInstall self.method.mergeFullHeaders(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 26, in mergeFullHeaders hdlist.mergeFullHeaders(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/hdlist2") File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 123, in mergeFullHeaders rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004) rpm.error: match tag missing in new header Expected Results: installed RH7 on the rest of Corporate machines Additional info: lpheobus where is the documetation to genhdlist or even anaconda?
what genhdlist did you use?
The Genlist in the 7.0 pkge w/ 2.2.16 kernel /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist does not respond with a -V command cannot grep out a version ??
you must use the 7.1 gehndlist if you're targeting a 7.1 system.