CentOS - Jan 2012 - local repositories

I need a clarification to the documentation.

My manager added a 6.2 repo; however, when I try doing pxeboot installs,
it fails, asserting that it can't find the group info. Another admin I
work with thinks it's not really what it's failing in, and notes that it
404's on images/updates.img and images/product.img. We *think* that's
irrelevant and ok. What is not clear to me is when we run createrepo, what
directory you need to be in at the time you execute it.

        mark

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I need a clarification to the documentation.
>
> My manager added a 6.2 repo; however, when I try doing pxeboot installs,
> it fails, asserting that it can't find the group info. Another admin I
> work with thinks it's not really what it's failing in, and notes
that it
> 404's on images/updates.img and images/product.img. We *think*
that's
> irrelevant and ok.
>
> What is not clear to me is when we run createrepo, what directory you need
> to be in at the time you execute it.
I would expect the createrepo to be done from the DVD root path, but I could
be wrong on that point.

Did you include the -g option to point to the comps.xml to include the package
group info?

Why are you doing a createrepo there at all?  If you're adding your own
packages to the base, why not have it as a separate repo?

jh

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I need a clarification to the documentation.
>
> My manager added a 6.2 repo [...]
That's a bit unclear. Did he mirror an existing repository using 
rsync or a similar tool? Did he build a local repo for locally built 
packages?

createrepo would only need to be run in the latter case.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
<snip>
>> My manager added a 6.2 repo; however, when I try doing pxeboot
installs, it fails, asserting that it can't find the group info.
Another admin I work <snip>
>> What is not clear to me is when we run createrepo, what directory you
need to be in at the time you execute it.
>
> I would expect the createrepo to be done from the DVD root path, but I
could be wrong on that point.
<snip>
> Why are you doing a createrepo there at all?  If you're adding your own
packages to the base, why not have it as a separate repo?

You seem to have misunderstood.
.../CentOS/base/6.0
.../CentOS/base/6.2
rsync'd 6.2 from mirror to the latter. Now, are you saying to cd to
.../CentOS/base/6.2/ and run createrepo ....?

        mark