[tools] PROBLEMS GENERATING REPOMD REPOSITORY

[John Scherff]

Result of using Francois' patch:

 

Changing line 711 of /usr/bin/mrepo

 

from

   repoopts = repoopts + ' --groupfile "RPMS.%s/comps.xml"' % self.name

 

to

   repoopts = repoopts + ' --groupfile "comps.xml"'

 

seems to have fixed the problem.

 

John Scherff

 

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From: tools-bounces at lists.rpmforge.net
[mailto:tools-bounces at lists.rpmforge.net] On Behalf Of John Scherff
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:14 PM
To: tools at lists.rpmforge.net
Subject: [tools] PROBLEMS GENERATING REPOMD REPOSITORY

 

I'm attempting to use mrepo-0.8.4 on RHEL4 to build repos for centos2,
centos3, centos4, rhel2.1as, rhel2.1es, rhel3as, rhel3es, rhel4as, and
rhel4es.

 

I experienced no problems mounting the ISOs (mrepo -vv) or downloading
updates (mrepo -uvv), however, when generating repositories (mrepo
-gvv), I receive the following error for 

 

 

Error: groupfile RPMS.os/comps.xml cannot be found.

 

    createrepo [options] directory-of-packages

    

    Options:

     -u, --baseurl = optional base url location for all files

     -x, --exclude = files globs to exclude, can be specified multiple
times

     -q, --quiet = run quietly

     -g, --groupfile <filename> to point to for group information
(precreated)

     -v, --verbose = run verbosely

     -c, --cachedir <dir> = specify which dir to use for the checksum
cache

     -h, --help = show this help

     -V, --version = output version

     -p, --pretty = output xml files in pretty format.

    

mrepo: Generating repo failed for os with message:

  /usr/bin/createrepo failed with return code: 256

 

 

It happened for some, but not all, of the OSs.  I can't say for certain
which ones, because the hardlink phase used up my scroll buffer by the
time I went back to check.  I know centos3, centos4, rhel3es, and
rhel3as had the problem.  I saw a brief discussion about this (on Yam
0.8.3) between Dag Wieers and Francois Aucamp , but couldn't tell if
there was a consensus on the resolution.  I plan to try Francois' patch.

 

John Scherff

Sr. IT Security Analyst

24 Hour Fitness

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