[virt-tools-list] problem installing a fedora rootfs with febootstrap on ubuntu

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 06/04/2010 06:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>    
>> On 06/04/2010 05:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>      
>>> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> The download happens without problems but when the installation begins,
>>>> there are a lot of dependency problems like:
>>>>
>>>> Running rpm_check_debug
>>>> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
>>>> libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.8)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libcrypt.so.1()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libcrypt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libdb-4.7.so()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libdl.so.2()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libnsl.so.1()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libnsl.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libutil.so.1()(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64
>>>> ....
>>>>
>>>> I tried with the version 2.1 and 2.7, I have for both the same problem.
>>>>
>>>> Did I missed something ?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> The errors seem to indicate that you are installing pam, but somehow
>>> not installing glibc.  I would assume that glibc is a dependency of
>>> pam, but maybe not.  What's the full command line and full output?
>>>
>>>        
>> The command line is :
>>
>>   "febootstrap fedora-12 ./f12"
>>
>> I tried to get a fedora 10 and I got the same result (in attachment).
>>      
> Fedora 10 seems unlikely to work because it's long out of support.
>
>    
>>> Also you'll need to check the version of rpm and yum [on Ubuntu]
>>> matches the version that was around when Fedora 12 was released (or
>>> later, but not earlier versions).
>>>
>>>        
>> I tried on an ubuntu 10.04:
>>
>> yum : 3.2.25-1ubuntu2
>> rpm : 4.7.2-1lbuild1
>>
>> on fedora 12:
>>
>> yum : 3.2.25
>> rpm : 4.7.1-6
>>
>> At the first glance they seems ok, no ?
>>      
> The versions look OK.
>
> I guess the thing to do is to manually download the RPMs and try to
> see if the dependencies resolve, eg:
>
> $ rpm -q --requires -p http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/pam-1.1.0-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm
>
> versus:
>
> $ rpm -q --provides -p http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/glibc-2.11-2.x86_64.rpm
>
> febootstrap is just a thin shell script wrapper around 'yum' and 'rpm'
> so any dep resolving bug is likely to be a bug in yum/rpm.
>
> Rich.
>    

Thank you very much Richard, I will look forward and check against 'yum' 
and 'rpm'.

   -- Daniel