25th April
2008
After more testing I have narrowed the issue that I left off with to a problem with the yum conf inside of the chroot.
I just got the patch working to the centos-5 postinstall script that does fix this issue. So to clarify I did add to /etc/rinse/centos-5.packages
Those package were
e2fsprogs-libs
authconfig
That was early in the debugging and after I found the real issue I removed those packages without causing issues.
So what do you need to do to bootstrap centos5 with rinse? All you need to do is apply a small patch to the post install script. Here is the patch rinse-centos5.patch.
Here is how you apply it.
As root:
cd /usr/lib/rinse/centos-5 wget http://www.cmdln.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rinse-centos5.patch patch -p0 < rinse-centos5.patch
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[...] by the default rinse configuration (see xen-tools with my patch that you can see from a previous post). If you follow the install docs you will have tried to uninstall openldap etc [...]
Hi,
Thanks for the fix! It helped with some issues. Still had a Yum/SQLiteCachec problem after all this, finally fixed it by adding yum-metadata-parser to the package list to download in the rinse configs.
Cheers again
Glad it helped you.
rinse fails to install new Centos-5 machines since yum requires some libs shipped with nss, nspr and python-iniparse packages.
adding these in /etc/rinse/centos-5.packages resolve the issue.
Thank you a lot guys for all the invaluable hints!
As of now, the most recent version of rinse in Debian already incorporates Nick’s patch and installs yum-metadata-parser for centos-5, so I had just to add these 3 lines:
nss
nspr
python-iniparse
to /etc/rinse/centos-5.packages and it worked like a charm for CentOS 5.3!
Did anybody try to send the patch upstream to Steve the xen-tools developer?
I have sent several patches to Steve before. He has always been receptive though sometimes a bit slow to respond.