How to get mock chroot with rpms for a core file?

Jiri Moskovcak jmoskovc at redhat.com
Tue Jun 4 13:17:48 UTC 2013


On 06/04/2013 03:00 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:52:28 +0200, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>> - no, but you can send your coredump to the retrace server...
>
> That provides less information than interactive investigation of the core
> files.
>
>
>>> (2)
>>> If I download the rpms some way (which I did above) is there a supported way
>>> of building the local mock chroot from them?
>>
>> - build your own repository from the downloaded packages and
>> configure mock to use it
>
> The problem is that those files have dependencies on other files from Fedora
> repository and when I give yum access to the Fedora repository yum installs
> newer files than those I requested.
>
>
>>> [ This was my mail above about, yum is still forcing me to use newer rpms. ]
>>
>> - this is a bug in yum [rhbz#771841] you have to either provide
>> exact versions of all packages or yum will pull the latest and
>> update even the depending packages ignoring the version specified on
>> cmdline
>
> [rhbz#771841] seems to address the issue described above, great.
>
> I will try to use 'yum upgrade-to' if it solves the problem for me.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771841#c6
> # There was no way yum in it's current state could do the work for us, so we
> # wrote our own chroot installer.

- this comment is not completely correct, it only installs a part of 
required packages and wouldn't help you

>
> Maybe it could be added to yum-utils.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>



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