yum --installroot install cannot find /proc directory in Fedora 17
 

I'm creating chroots of Red Hat-based distributions inside my RHEL (host OS) and using them to build packages for different distributions. The process is described here: http://www.serverschool.com/dedicate...ent-in-centos/. For Fedora, I setup a basic environment with rpm -i --root=<myroot> --nodeps http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...7-1.noarch.rpm and then use yum --installroot=<myroot> --disablerepo="host_repos" install <package_name> to install packages needed to build packages.

This process works fine for Fedora 15 and 16, but the yum install crashes on Fedora 17/18 at the yum install with the error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/317/cmdline'. The /proc/ directory does not exist inside <myroot> directory at this point.

Why this process does not work in Fedora 17+? Any workarounds?

edit: I've read I possibly would need to bind chroot's /proc and /dev to the one in host os. I've tried that and it still does not work.


Thanks in advance.

I have done only a one experiment with creating a chroot environment and cannot help much but I came across a utility called Mach which purports to automate the chroot install process. I have not personally tried it. Its used for testing package builds.

Have you looked at the Mach utility? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UsingMach

Best of luck!

(I have Fedora 18 on my Dell Inspiron N411z laptop which runs a i3 Intel based configuration. Runs like a champion.)