From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010712 Description of problem: During a kickstart or manual installation of the July 29th 2001 rawhide release the installer stops running while doing a package scan. The complaint seems to be about the redhat-release package. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grab rawhide july 29th release 2. try to install it 3. Actual Results: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 608, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 348, in run self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 775, in run self.setup_window (runres) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 755, in setup_window self.setScreen () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 502, in setScreen (step, args) = self.dispatch.currentStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in currentStep self.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 139, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 204, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 102, in readPackages id.comps = method.readComps(id.hdList) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 771, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 558, in readCompsFile self.expressions[packages[l]] = None File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 152, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: redhat-release Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 843f260> item: redhat-release Expected Results: installation would ideally continued and completed Additional info:
The rawhide installer is never guaranteed to work. In any case, the particular problem (rawhide comps looking for redhat release instead of rawhide-release) should be fixed in the next tree.