Customized installation problem
fazlin
I have a machine running Opensuse 10.3 and i need to create a opensuse
11.1 environment in a directory say "/home/myroot". I need this setup
so that i can do a chroot to /home/myroot and perform some compilation
using gcc supplies by opensuse11.1.
I got the Opensuse 11.1 DVD and tried to install the rpm using
following commands:
rpm -hvi --root /home/myroot <rpm-package>
I face few problems:
1. Dependency issues
2. rpmlib(PayloadIsLZMA) issue.
I need few help for the following questions:
1. Is there any particular order in which rpms should be installed to
setup a minimal root system (for my reqmnt atleast)
2. I understand that rpmlib issue is due to opensuse 11.1 using LZMA
compression while 10.2 rpm package could not handle that. But i cant
find a proper solution to overcome this problem.
Any help on these questions will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Fazlin
taco
hi,
if it's only gcc, I would build this using the gnu tools. You need to start
with binutils, make, gcc etc. see gnu.org. Lot of duplicating and lot of
work. A much better idea is to start a virtual machine and install a
minimal opensuse 11.1 (without kde/gnome etc.)
taco
Darklight
I had a problem once with LZMA i tried to install cooliris on 10.3 when
cooliris first came out for linux the only way to get it to work was
install rpmlib(PayloadIsLZMA) and install a different version of gcc to
install rpmlib and a few other packages. i got cooliris to install but the
OS ran like a pig.
I to still run 10.3 after a reinstall i see no need to upgrade. As regards
to what your doing i would leave well alone. Or install 11.2 i installed
that on my laptop impressive but my 10.3 does every thing 11.2 can do.
fazlin
Thanks for your replies...
Now i got opensuse 11.1 instead of 10.3 and hence rpmlib
(PayloadIsLZMA) problem is solved.
But i still need to know the set of rpms that are required to create a
chroot environment in my "/home/myroot" directory. Listing the basic
rpms would be helpful. From my analysis rpms like filesystem, bash,
glibc are very essential ones but they have lot of dependencies
problem when i do rpm -hvi --root /home/myroot <rpm>
Thanks,
Fazlin
Ulick Magee
>
> I to still run 10.3 after a reinstall i see no need to upgrade.
10.3 has now reached end of life, so no more security updates...
>From the opensuse-security-announce mailing list:
On Mon 16 Nov 2009, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the release of an cups security fix on Friday 13th we have
> released the last update for openSUSE 10.3.
>
> It is now officially discontinued and out of support.
>
> openSUSE 10.3 was released on October 4 2006.
>
> Some statistics on the released patches:
> Total updates: 715 (+72)
> Security: 521 (+35)
> Recommended: 191 (+37)
> Optional: 3 ( 0)
>
> CVE Entries: 1006 (+300)
>
> There is a 7% increase in the number of security updates compared to
> openSUSE 10.2. But there appears to be a 42% increase in CVE numbers
> fixed.
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Eef Hartman
>> I to still run 10.3 after a reinstall i see no need to upgrade.
>
> 10.3 has now reached end of life, so no more security updates...
And all of the Build Service repo's for 10.3 have been removed.
Even the community search engine (packages.opensuse-community.org)
now starts at 11.0 !!
I think packman still has 10.3 available, but since yesterday I,
myself, have switched to 11.1, because of the above problems.
We still _do_ have a local copy of the 10.3 oss/non-oss/update
repo's, though.
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