yum, missing directories
Finally got to test your yum work today. Very exciting.
I am following the yum/README.md and get the following when running setup_all.sh
(partial paste of larger output)
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yum --version
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PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/sbin
LIBPATH=
3.4.3
Could not set cachedir: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/yum-aaron-gJ3BNs'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/freeware/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 288, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 98, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 280, in getOptionsConfig
for pkg in sorted(self.rpmdb.returnPackages(patterns=yum_progs)):
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 618, in returnPackages
self._makePackageObject(hdr, idx)
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 1272, in _makePackageObject
self._cached_rpmdb_mtime = os.path.getmtime(rpmdbfname)
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 62, in getmtime
return os.stat(filename).st_mtime
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//var/lib/rpm/Packages'
Some ls
commands:
bash-4.3$ ls /var/tmp/yum-aaron-gJ3BNs
/var/tmp/yum-aaron-gJ3BNs not found
bash-4.3$ ls /var/tmp/
/var/tmp/ not found
bash-4.3$ ls /var/
cache lib opt var
bash-4.3$ ls /var/var
lib log opt tmp
Doing the following fixed the issues:
mkdir -p /var/lib/rpm/Packages
mkdir /var/tmp
I then had this error:
touch: /var/log/yum.log cannot create
And the following fixed that:
mkdir -p /var/log
I wasn't sure if a simple mkdir
in the setup_xxxxx.sh
scripts should be added or if there is a different issue. If it's just mkdir
then I will fix.
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reporter I was about to make the change and then I saw line 29 from yum/setup_all.sh. . .
ln -sf /QOpenSys/var /var
The immediate previous
mkdir
commands should have resolved my issues. What I realized is the/var
directory already exists and symbolic link creation, even with -f (force), doesn't overwrite the directory and instead silently fails. It was then I realized I was being naughty and not following your directions. I hate the default shell (no tab completion) so I first installed perzl's bash. Well, guess what directory that creates? Yes,/var
. So if I make sure to do nothing else before installing/configuring yum I am fine.So that begs the question: should we make chroot environments less fickle by adding the following to
chroot_minimal.lst
?:mkdir /QOpenSys/var :ln /QOpenSys/var /var
This takes it further than "minimal" and assumes usage of perzl or yum, which I think is fine.
I plan on making the above change to
chroot_minimal.lst
unless I hear otherwise. -
reporter - changed status to resolved
Resolving issue with this commit.
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YES. Go ahead and add missing directory creates.