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' ?


kind regards,

David Sommerseth