[et-mgmt-tools] Next challenge - anaconda confusion

[Michael DeHaan]

Maute, Kevin P CTR AFRL/VAOO wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I am still struggling to get back to what I had earlier… Now I am 
> getting the following error:
>
> Unable to read package metadata. This may br due to a missing repodata 
> directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly 
> generated. Cannot open/read repod.xml file for repository: 
> anaconda-base-200702081643.x86_64
>
> I have even rebuilt the RHEL5 Client repo with no change so am I 
> missing a createrepo somewhere or is this a known bug with cobbler 
> (0.6.1)? I am also including a 'cobbler report' in case that helps…
>
>
There isn't a Cobbler bug as we have several folks using the repo 
management features with 0.6.1 ... there's not quite enough information 
to say what the actual case is. I hcan't quite tell /which/ repo you are 
talking about, what the source for that repo is, or the parameters that 
created it. If you are still talking about the manual "cobbler repo 
adds" you used to create the RHEL5 install, you might want to reimport 
the distro (cobbler import -- and yes, you can import over an existing 
one) and it will set them up automatically as "source" repos, which are 
static and don't need to be updated -- therefore you don't need to use 
"cobbler repo add" to set them up (you can "cobbler repo remove" the 
ones you have and clean out their storage in 
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror). As I recall you had added them manually, 
and those are the repos you used (stuff off the install CD), that's the 
way they are designed to work for distros that have the split layout 
(like RHEL5).

If this is instead talking about an updates repository, etc, disregard 
the above.

--Michael