I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the
sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such
a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already
(http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2492), but it's certainly a
strange situation.
1. Anaconda doesn't think the package sysreport exists
2. yum thinks it exists:
# yum list sysreport
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
sysreport.noarch 1.4.3-13.el5 base
3. But installing with yum fails:
# yum install sysreport
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Package sos - 1.7-9.1.el5.noarch already installed and
latest version
Nothing to do
4. The sysreport file from the sos package fails to run:
# sysreport
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/sysreport", line 31, in ?
import sos.policyredhat
ImportError: No module named sos.policyredhat
5. But if you extract /usr/sbin/sysreport from the sysreport
package using
rpm2cpio for instance, it works just fine.
So it would be nice if yum would allow installing the sysreport
package (see step 3 above) as that would appear to solve all the
problems.
Alfred
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