[et-mgmt-tools] CentOS 4 Cobbler Server Hosting CentOS 5 Repository

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Demetri Mouratis <dmourati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into some additional problems getting setup to support
> CentOS 5 from my cobber server running CentOS 4.  When I PXE a new
> CentOS 5 host, I get some error messages like:
>
> Unable to read group information from repositories.  This
> is a problem with the generation of your install tree.
>
> Looking a bit closer, I noticed that the repostiory structure seems to
> have changed between 4 and 5.
>
> # find centos4-i386 centos5-i386 -type d
> centos4-i386
> centos4-i386/headers
> centos4-i386/isolinux
> centos4-i386/.olddata
> centos4-i386/NOTES
> centos4-i386/cache
> centos4-i386/images
> centos4-i386/images/xen
> centos4-i386/images/pxeboot
> centos4-i386/repodata
> centos4-i386/CentOS
> centos4-i386/CentOS/base
> centos4-i386/CentOS/RPMS
> centos5-i386
> centos5-i386/isolinux
> centos5-i386/NOTES
> centos5-i386/cache
> centos5-i386/images
> centos5-i386/images/xen
> centos5-i386/images/pxeboot
> centos5-i386/repodata
> centos5-i386/CentOS
> centos5-i386/CentOS/repodata
>
> Under 5, there are no longer RPMS or base directories.
>

That is a change in how EL-4 and EL-5 layed out their packages. The
older anaconda used  oneway and the newer one did not.


> What is going on here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -D
>
> I think that the createrepo command under CentOS4 is having trouble
> doing the right thing.

Unknown at this time..  what version of createrepo are you using?


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