CentOS - Feb 2006 - OT: Local Mirror problems, wrong paths to RPMs with yum update

This week I set up a local mirror for a few dists, including Centos 4.0
and 4.2, and Fedora Core 3 and 4. I'm using a script called yum-pull.
For the most part I really like the script, it automates the setup of
your mirrors and tries a bunch of different mirrors when it goes out to
get updates, if it fails on one it tries another. It uses the usual
suspects, createrepo and repoview, among others.

That being said I have it all setup, but I have the following problem.
For some reason the paths are not always right when you run yum update
from a workstation. I'm installing a fresh copy of centos 4.2 right now
so I can test the centos mirror, but I definitely have problems with my
FC3 and 4 ones.

One example, if I include atrpms in my repo file, it's looking for the
RPMs in this directory:
http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/
BUT it should be looking here:
http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/

Can anyone tell me where this is screwed up at?

The directory structure looks like this:
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/headers/
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/repodata/  

repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/headers/
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/packages/
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/repodata/  

etc.

I just tried my centos4.2 mirror on the new test install and it worked
ok. Still, any help understanding this is appreciated. I did some
googling on createrepo but have yet to find my answer. 

Thanks,
James

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:32 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> This week I set up a local mirror for a few dists, including Centos 4.0
> and 4.2, and Fedora Core 3 and 4. I'm using a script called yum-pull.
> For the most part I really like the script, it automates the setup of
> your mirrors and tries a bunch of different mirrors when it goes out to
> get updates, if it fails on one it tries another. It uses the usual
> suspects, createrepo and repoview, among others.
> 
> That being said I have it all setup, but I have the following problem.
> For some reason the paths are not always right when you run yum update
> from a workstation. I'm installing a fresh copy of centos 4.2 right now
> so I can test the centos mirror, but I definitely have problems with my
> FC3 and 4 ones.
> 
> One example, if I include atrpms in my repo file, it's looking for the
> RPMs in this directory:
> http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/
> BUT it should be looking here:
> http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/
> 
> Can anyone tell me where this is screwed up at?
> 
> The directory structure looks like this:
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/headers/
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/repodata/  
> 
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/headers/
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/packages/
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/repodata/  
> 
> etc.
> 
> I just tried my centos4.2 mirror on the new test install and it worked
> ok. Still, any help understanding this is appreciated. I did some
> googling on createrepo but have yet to find my answer. 
> 
When you run createrepo, it should find all the RPMS in the directory it
is run in .... and in all directories under that .. if you run it from
the updates directory (in your example) it should work OK if you point
to repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/ with your yum ... and it
should find RPMS in packages/.

If you want to point your yum to
repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/packages/  then you need to run
createrepo from within the pacakages/ directory and the headers and
repodata directories will be there instead of inside the updates
directory.
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> When you run createrepo, it should find all the RPMS in the directory it
> is run in .... and in all directories under that .. if you run it from
> the updates directory (in your example) it should work OK if you point
> to repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/ with your yum ... and it
> should find RPMS in packages/.
> 
> If you want to point your yum to
> repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/packages/  then you need to run
> createrepo from within the pacakages/ directory and the headers and
> repodata directories will be there instead of inside the updates
> directory.
That's interesting because I think that is they way I have it. The
headers and repodata are at the same level as packages all of which are
in the updates directory.

Here's the relevant section of the repo file. 

[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates

I'll try and run createrepo again and see if it makes any difference. 

Thanks,
James