On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:48:32PM -0700, Anthony Foiani wrote: > Richard -- > > First, thanks for the excellent tool! I'm trying to use it to create a root > FS for doing development on an embedded PPC board. > > (Out of curiosity, just how much work do you think implementing a > "--foreign" capability is? I happened to have an old PPC machine with an > f12 install on it, so I dodged that bullet, but it would be fantastic to be > able to build this root on my modern x86-64 workstation hardware...) > > Anyway, I tried to use the "-u" flag to febootstrap (hoping / believing that > it would provide my new root with the most up-to-date packages in my root), > and it failed to find the update repo metadata. I tried it again, without > the "-u" flag, and it mostly succeeded; it failed to install the > "filesystem", and "nscd" (?, error has already scrolled off my terminal) was > throwing "must be root" errors. > > I can duplicate this to get you more info if it would help... > > Anyway, the error message and a uname: > > $ uname -a > Linux shiny.int.foiani.com 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.ppc #1 Mon Dec 21 04:59:46 UTC > 2009 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux > > $ febootstrap \ > > -i bash -i 'boost*' -i 'g++' -i 'httpd' -i httpd-tools \ > > -u fedora-released-f12 \ > > fedora-12 f12-ppc-root > febootstrap | 4.2 kB 00:00 > febootstrap/primary_db | 12 MB 00:11 > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > febootstrap-updates. Please verify its path and try again
It cannot find the fedora-released-f12 repository for whatever reason. You should probably find out what path yum is trying to access. > chroot: failed to run command `rm': No such file or directory > chroot: failed to run command `rm': No such file or directory These are just a consequence of yum failing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
