[Revisor-users] Customizing Comps

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

P J P wrote:
>    Hello Jeroen,
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Mind that you need to exclude a number of packages from the updates
>> repository or the installation will fail. Add:
> 
>    Why is that?
> 

These packages have updates incompatible with the installer.

>> exclude=yum yum-updatesd rpm-build rpm-libs rpm rpm-devel rpm-python
>> rpmdevtools popt kyum
>>
>> to the [updates] section of your yum configuration file.
> 
>    Yum configuration file? or revisor-f7-hello-i386.conf??
> 

"revisor-f7-hello-i386.conf", which basically is a yum configuration file.

> 
>> If this doesn't help, please let us know what the actual error is you
>> are getting.
> 
>    Well so far, thrice I've created the install CD and DVD iso using 
> revisor. But all of them failed -at exactly the same point- during the 
> installation; ie. Immediately after formating the hard disk and before 
> resuming the further installation.
> 
> The exception dialogue says: This is an unhandled exception and thus 
> surely a bug in anaconda. Please report it to the Anaconda guys.
> 
> Exception at line 1196 new_fo = open (self.filename, 'wb') in _do_grab(): /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py
> 
> Error: No such file or directory: 
> `/tmp/cache/anaconda_base-200710302336.i386/headers/libsemanage-2.0.3-4.fc7.i386.hdr'
> 
> I'm not able to debug this. Could you please help?
> 

The above recommendation of adding the excludes to the updates
repositories will help resolve this problem.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip