On 11/15/12 11:27 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 15/11/12 16:56, Duke Nguyen wrote:
>> On 11/15/12 7:17 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>> On 15/11/12 12:03, Duke Nguyen wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to install a Base system into a directory using yum
>>>> groupinstall, but I got error as below. Any suggestion to solve the
>>>> errors? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
>>>> Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
>>>> $ uname -a
>>>> Linux biowulf.grih.org 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6
>>>> 11:21:14 CST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>> $ sudo yum -y groupinstall "Base" "Server Platform"
>>>> --installroot=/diskless/root
>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>>    * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>>>    * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
>>>>
>>>                                                     ^^^
>>> This looks wrong.  This should be $releasever and should have been
>>> expanded to 6.3 before sent to the web server.  Not sure why this
>>> happens though :/  %24 is ASCII hex code for $.
>> Thanks David, I also noticed that. But that is only one "strang" error!
>> I did try to change $releasever to 6.3 in all repo files in
>> /etc/yum.repo.d/, and did not have above error, but still got similar
>> error at the end:
>>
>>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6.9-11 for package:
>>> systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6.x86_64
>>> ---> Package xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-32.el6 will be installed
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Error: Package: libdrm-2.4.25-2.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.29.1-52.fc11
>>> Error: Package: pcmciautils-015-4.2.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
>>> Error: Package: systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.9-11
>>>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>> Question is: why the system installed fine with live CD, and now with
>> the exact same system, installation to different location
>> (/diskless/root) fails with all kind of dependencies?
> I'll admit I didn't look too carefully at the rest last time.  Fixing
> the first steps usually helps solving the next ones ... but there are a
> couple of things here I wonder about:
>
> kernel >= 2.6.29.1-52.fc11
> kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
> kernel >= 2.6.9-11
>
> That is ancient kernels, none of them have (to my knowledge) ever been
> EL kernels, and all of them predates EL6 and even EL5.
>
> So I'm wondering where it got the information about these kernels.
> Could you please provide the output of 'rpm -qa kernel' ?

Here you go:

$ rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64

Thanks,

D.