[Yum] Re: yum --installroot error

Mark Huth mc.huth at qut.edu.au
Fri Dec 10 05:57:19 UTC 2004


Oh, I forgot to mention I'm using yum version 2.1.11 on Fedora
Core 3.  Also yum works fine if I boot into the --installroot
partition and run it from there so I don't think there is
anything wrong with the config/repo files.

Regards,
Mark

>
>Hi, 
>I not sure if I am doing something wrong or it is a bug, but
>when I run yum with installroot I get this error:
>
>yum --installroot=/mnt/devel check-update
>Config Error: Insufficient repository configuration. No
>repositories Found/Enabled. Aborting.
>
>When I run it using strace I saw the following output:
>
>stat64("/mnt/devel/mnt/devel/etc/yum.repos.d", 0xbfffe950) =
>-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>write(2, "Config Error: Insufficient repository configuration.
>No repositories Found/Enabled. Aborting.\n", 94) = 94
>
>When I put this link in: /mnt/devel/mnt/devel -> /mnt/devel I
>didn't get the error, but I'm sure this shouldn't be the way
>to get this to work.  A bug?
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>



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