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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have several custom channels with RPM packages in our Spacewalk 1.8 server, I have created yum group files for these channels, but where should the yum group file reside and what should its file name be?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I sync into the Spacewalk channels from a local yum repos, the yum repos is created using createrepo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Example:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Directory /var/www/html/repository/inhouse_stored contains RPMS and createrepo command has created the /var/www/html/repository/inhouse_stored/repodata directory that contains the metadata files.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The directory /var/www/html/inhouse_stored is served by Apache web server as http://bogus-server.bogus.com/inhouse_stored/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Where should the yum group xml file be placed in the above example for spacewalk-repo-sync to find it and sync it into our Spacewalk 1.8 server? I have tried to name it comps.xml and place it in the /var/www/html/repository/inhouse_stored/repodata directory, didn’t work. I have tried to compress it using gzip so its name becomes comps.xml.gz, still didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone who can help me with this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Frank Mikkelsen Blohmé<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Axis Communications AB – IT Group<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sweden, Lund<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>