[Yum] chroot revisited...

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:21 -0700, Bobby Kashani wrote:
> I think that Seth, explained this to me a while ago but I seem to have
> forgotten why it happens.
> 
> Doesn't work:
> 
> yum -y --installroot=/home/bob/mychroot install openssl
> 
> error: %post(openssl-0.9.7f-7.686) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
> 
> Does work:
> 
> rpm --root /home/bob/mychroot -Uvh --nodeps --force openssl
> 
> Why can't yum execute the pre/post scriptlets when installing into a
> chroot but RPM can?
> 
> The reason I ask is this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165264
> 

I noted it in the bug - but you don't have /proc or /dev mounted and
it's one of those that's causing the scriptlet errors.

mock does those mounts specifically for this reason.

-sv