buildroots.xml and packages have to be in same location?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:37 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:27 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:13 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Seth,
> > > 
> > > Using your mach SRPM and buildroots file, I had to actually pull down all the 
> > > packages locally and place the buildroots.xml file in the same dir as the 
> > > packages, then run createrepo on it before it would take (obviously pointing 
> > > mach to the local files as the yumsource).
> > > 
> > > It seems that (unless I'm mistaken) the buildroots.xml file needs to be in any 
> > > repo that I'd point mach to?  Is that correct?  Is there no way of keeping the 
> > > buildroots.xml file locally, or at some other site, separate from the actual 
> > > packages?
> > 
> > did you look at the 'buildgroups' repo I have in the fedore core
> > development mach dist.d file?
> > 
> > You can simply list them there, in a repository empty of files, and yum
> > pulls it in.
> 
> I tried doing exactly that:
> 
> (from dist.d/aurora-2-sparc)
> yumsources['aurora-2-sparc'] = {
>     'core':             'rpm ' + aurora + ' / core',
>     'buildgroups':      'rpm ' + buildgroups + ' /i386/ groups',
> }
> 
> (from location)
> # Fedora Core; this location should contain versioned directions
> aurora      = 'http://download.wpi.edu/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/os/Fedora/RPMS'
> 
> # build groups
> buildgroups = 'http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/mach/'
> 
> 
> but this results in the following error:
> 
> Preparing root
> Installing group 'minimal' ...!
> error: /usr/sbin/mach-helper yum --installroot /build/lib/mach/roots/aurora-2-sparc-core -c /build/lib/mach/states/aurora-2-sparc-core/yum.conf groupinstall build-minimal failed.
>  Setting up Group Process
> Setting up Repos
> core                      100% |=========================|  903 B    00:00
> Error: No Groups on which to run command
> 
> ERROR: Could not get build-minimal
> 
> The yum.repo file that the config file points to looks like this:
> [core]
> name=core
> baseurl=http://download.wpi.edu/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/os/Fedora/RPMS//
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> 
> How is yum going to find the group information at Duke if its not anywhere in the yum.repo file?

let me see the rest of your dist.d file. I think you left out a section.

-sv