Re: how to fool redhat-config-packages?

[Danial Howard]

Tammy Fox wrote:

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:01:01PM -0600, Danial Howard wrote:

I cannot get the --tree option to work at all. The redhat-config-packages tells me that the directory I specified does not appear to be a valid installation source.

I've tried every directory level with and without a slash at the end.

e.g.:
redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

You need to point it to the directory that contains the RedHat
directory.  I just tried it from a directory mounted over NFS, and it
takes a little longer to read the RPM Headers, but it works.

Tammy

I use my local mirror all the time for NFS and HTTP network installs. I'm certain that it's a valid installation source.

Here's what I use for NFS installs:

server name: rhinstall
directory: /exports/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386

On the NFS server, I export /exports/redhat/8.0.
On the NFS client, I mount like this using fstab:
[line will probably wrap]
rhinstall:/exports/redhat/8.0 /mnt/8.0 nfs noauto,ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0

So, locally, I should use /mnt/8.0/en/os/i386, which contains the RedHat directory. I can cd there and see the files. They look normal.

So I try this:

redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386
redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386/

Executing the above, I still get the error message "Installation Tree Not Found. The path /mnt/8.0/en/os/i386 does not look like a valid installation source." Similar error message for the second with the / at the end.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

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Danial M. Howard--howadani at isu.edu--(208) 282-3097
IT Systems Programmer, Computing and Communications
Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA