fakeroot
- Tested with version 1.11.
- fakechroot > 2.8 or 2.8 + patch
+ fakechroot >= 2.9 or 2.8 + patch
- **** NB. KNOWN NOT TO WORK WITH 2.8 ***** You MUST apply
the patch 'fakechroot-2.8-relchroot.patch' to the fakechroot
sources and recompile. Hopefully this patch will be included
in future versions of fakechroot.
yum
- - Tested with version 3.2.
+ - Tested with version 3.2 (works best with 3.2.21 or above)
- Needs network access to a Fedora repository, or a local
Fedora mirror.
make
sudo make install
+Note, if you want to run the scripts locally without installing,
+you have to set the $PATH to the current directory, ie:
+
+ PATH=$(pwd):$PATH
+ febootstrap [...]
+
+Debugging
+---------
+
+If you get segfaults while running febootstrap or errors in the %post
+scripts, these are often caused by some incompatibility in the
+emulation provided by fakeroot/fakechroot. You can track them down by
+running the yum command explicitly. Try:
+
+ fakeroot fakechroot -s \
+ yum -y -c /tmp/repo \
+ --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=febootstrap \
+ --noplugins --nogpgcheck \
+ --installroot=/tmp/root \
+ install "@Core"
+
+where /tmp/repo would be a file like this (change repo and arch
+parameters as appropriate):
+
+ [febootstrap]
+ name=febootstrap
+ failovermethod=priority
+ enabled=1
+ gpgcheck=0
+ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64
+
+You can insert gdb in the appropriate place in the fakeroot /
+fakechroot / yum command.
+
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