On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Demetri Mouratis <dmourati@xxxxxxxxx> 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? -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
