Seth, There is no yumgroups.xml file. I did not know that I needed one. So I just ran "yum grouplist" without knowing it needed it, though I did wonder how it was going to get the xml file. -connie On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:09, csieh wrote: > > Seth, > > > > We are starting to work on our release based on RedHat 9. So we have > > started to test the new yum(the 1.95 version). One of the new features > > that I really like are the "group" commands. So I did a "yum grouplist" > > and yum died with a traceback. > > This is pretty much a first pass at those commands so I'm not terribly > surprised there are some bugs. > > > I did a "yum -d 4 grouplist" with most of the "not needed stuff > > removed". So it looks like it did not do well without a yumgroups.xml > > file. I copied my comps.xml file over as RedHat/RPMS/yumgroups.xml and > > that fixed the first try at a yumgroups.xml file, but it tried to find one > > for each repository. I doubt that this is really needed. > > well, -d 3 should cover you for most of the group stuff. > but even so it shouldn't complain about the yumgroups.xml missing - it > will warn you but it won't error out there. > > > > I modified my yum.conf to take out some of the repositories so that I > > could get past this error and did a "yum grouplist" and it worked great. > > I then did a "yum groupinstall "Openafs client" and it work great too. > > I do have one question though. Is the "group" name case sensitive? > > yes. > > > wnloading needed headers > > Getting groups from servers > > getting groups from server: 90rollingserver > > Error getting file ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/90rolling/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yumgroups.xml > > [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong > > Got a file - yay > > getting groups from server: 90rollingupdates > > Error getting file ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/90rolling/i386/updates/RedHat/RPMS/yumgroups.xml > > [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong > > Got a file - yay > > getting groups from server: yum > > Error getting file ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/contrib/yum/901/RPMS/yumgroups.xml > > [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong > > Got a file - yay > > ok all of these are ok and will only output when the debug level is 3 > or higher - I did that on purpose. > > All it's saying is it can't find a groups file at each of these places. > > > > Adding Group from 90rollingserver > > /var/cache/yum/90rollingserver/yumgroups.xml:1: error: Document is empty > > > > ^ > > /var/cache/yum/90rollingserver/yumgroups.xml:1: error: Start tag expected, '<' not found > > > > ^ > > > > now _this_ is the real error > > Is that yumgroups.xml file modified in some way? One of those is messed > up somehow b/c libxml is complaining. > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 45, in ? > > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > > File "yummain.py", line 202, in main > > File "yumcomps.py", line 65, in add > > File "comps.py", line 297, in __init__ > > File "comps.py", line 301, in load > > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 970, in parseFile > > if ret is None:raise parserError('xmlParseFile() failed') > > libxml2.parserError: xmlParseFile() failed > > I should definitely catch this - and I'm surprised comps.py isn't > catching it. > > -sv > > >
