On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Iwona Sakrejda wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I will sum up here what I have done so far to make reading of it easier.
> I am still unable to make a site with a handful of custom RPMs that
> would install. I believe I really closely followed the web instructions:
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/create.site
>
> I created my site in the <tree>/sites/ directory by copying
> the <tree>/sites/example directory. Then I added my own RPMs
> into <tree>/sites/<mysite>/Updates as suggested in:
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30x/i386/sites/example/build/documentation/README.steps
>
> I did modify locations.include.
>
> Then I did a kickstart install and it seemed to be happy, but my rpms
> from The Updates directory did not get installed.
>
> So I reread README and it seems to me that I should be modifying also
> comps.xml.main, so I did that and tried to run  make.everything.sh
> again and I have the following problem.
> 1. It asks me to remove rpmdb-SL-44-0.20061019 and I don't seem to have
> it....

This is implying that you have rpmdb installed on your build system.  You 
can verify this with

rpm -qa | grep rpmdb

If you do have it then use rpm to remove it.

> 2. It is using the Fermi PATH, but I cannot figure out where does it get
> that...

It seems like there is a directory path in the base/scripts that is not 
using the right path.  Just modify it to point to the right place.  Must 
have missed that in the documentation.  Thanks for reporting this issue.

The output below was very useful to debug this problem.

-Connie Sieh

  >
> See full output below,
>
> Suggestions appreciated.
>
> Iwona
>
>
> # sh make.everything.sh
> TREE is /auto/work/iwona/kickstart/i386
> SITE is pdsf
> SITEDIR is sites/pdsf
> DEFAULT is SL
> Do you want to build new install images? y or n
> n
> Do you want to build cd iso images? y or n
> n
> Creating hdlist now
> TREE is /auto/work/iwona/kickstart//i386
> SITE is pdsf
> SITEDIR is sites/pdsf
> DEFAULT is SL
> Running genhdlist now
> You may see messages about duplicate packages.  You should verify
> that these packages are really ones you have replaced compared
> to /auto/work/iwona/kickstart//i386/SL/RPMS
> duplicate compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3 skipped as
> /Updates/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3 has priority
> duplicate compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3 skipped as
> /Updates/compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3 has priority
> duplicate compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3 skipped as
> /Updates/compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3 has priority
> Creating rpmdb rpm now
> TREE is /auto/work/iwona/kickstart//i386
> SITE is pdsf
> SITEDIR is sites/pdsf
> DEFAULT is SL
> rpmdb-SL-44-0.20061019
> You have rpmdb shown above installed.  This rpm must be
> removed for this new build to work
> Creating comps.rpm now
> SITE IS pdsf
> making new comps.rpm
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55523
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> + LANG=C
> + export LANG
> + unset DISPLAY
> + '[' -d /mnt/src/scientific/40rolling/i386/sites/example/base ']'
> + echo 'This specfile needs access to
> /mnt/src/scientific/40rolling/i386/sites/example/base'
> This specfile needs access to
> /mnt/src/scientific/40rolling/i386/sites/example/base
> + exit 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55523 (%prep)
>