Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-07 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
I don't get what you are trying to say, you mean you don't have acces to ooutput from rpm -qla? That is a social problem, not a technical, so you needa social solution.well, I can do rpm -qla & get a huge list of rpms. But I don't know what rpms must be contained in the basic rootfs. Still don't ge

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-07 Thread Jelle Boomstra
On Saturday 07 January 2006 19:19, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: [...] > Also, I don't have RPM distribution list to access, so I have to use > rpmrebuild tool to generate machine's rpm snapshot to a temporary > directories. I don't get what you are trying to say, you mean you don't have acces to oout

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-07 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
What is the tool you use on your distro to make packages when you don't have root? rpmbuild to make rpm packages but does not need root. I just have very limited deployment privs to certain directories using rpm -ivh. Also, I don't have RPM distribution list to access, so I have to use rpmrebuild t

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-07 Thread Jelle Boomstra
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:11, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > The web site looks great. But currently I don't have root access to the > machine I'm trying to build rootfs. Is there a way to build rootfs as > non-root user? I'm stuck at this point. I just know debian has rootstrap > tool to build rootfs

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-07 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
The web site looks great. But currently I don't have root access to the machine I'm trying to build rootfs. Is there a way to build rootfs as non-root user? I'm stuck at this point. I just know debian has rootstrap tool to build rootfs as non-root, & I found that there is a tool called rpmstrap, so

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-06 Thread Xinhuan Zheng
Thanks very much, Jim. I'll take a look at it. --xinhuanOn 1/6/06, Jim Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:> Does anyone know how to make a yum repository for, say, rhel3? I found a reference, for Red Hat, that looks pretty complete:http://www.webmo.net/sup

Re: [uml-user] UML rootfs yum server

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Carter
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > Does anyone know how to make a yum repository for, say, rhel3? I found a reference, for Red Hat, that looks pretty complete: http://www.webmo.net/support/yum_repository.html For those of us who aren't doing the hat thing, yum (Yellow Dog Updater) i