[tools] PROBLEMS GENERATING REPOMD REPOSITORY

[John Scherff]

> This is a known problem caused by differences between createrepo
releases. 
> I think it works for newer releases of createrepo and I would advice
to 
> use the createrepo from RPMforge.

Dag, 

You were correct.  Upgrading createrepo from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4 fixed the
problem.

John Scherff

-----Original Message-----
From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag at wieers.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:30 AM
To: John Scherff
Cc: tools at lists.rpmforge.net
Subject: RE: [tools] PROBLEMS GENERATING REPOMD REPOSITORY

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, John Scherff wrote:

> 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.

This is a known problem caused by differences between createrepo
releases. 
I think it works for newer releases of createrepo and I would advice to 
use the createrepo from RPMforge.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]