On Sun 1/1/12 22:54 +0100 "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" wrote: > On 01/01/2012 10:18 PM, yum@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I'm not in a position to mv comps.xml on 172.16.22.8. > > > > How might I configure or invoke 'yum groupinstall ..' > > to look for > > http://172.16.22.8/yum/updatevm/comps.xml ? --snip > > My guess is that repo admin failed to integrate comps.xml into repodata. > > Try copying comps.xml (use that exact name) into > /var/cache/yum/updates-local/ > > and then run yum from cache with "-C". It might work. I tried above approach, results here: http://freetexthost.com/u1jyfyyblb yum is looking for rpm versions that are not in the 'updates-local' repo, and not in the 'base-local' repo! How is yum determining these versions? examples: yum wanted: gdb-7.0.1-37.el5.x86_64.rpm, dogtail-0.6.1-4.el5.noarch.rpm updates-local has: no dogtail, no gdb base-local has earlier versions: gdb-7.0.1-32.el5.x86_64.rpm, dogtail-0.6.1-3.el5.noarch.rpm 'updates-local' repo has only about 200 rpms; base-local has ~3200! So I assume 'base-local' being much larger, should be used for 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"'? Neither repo has a 'repodata/groups.xml' file. Pls click on the chopapp.com and freetexthost.com links below to see our repo tree structure and rpms listing: repo "base-local": http://chopapp.com/#6e1j7alb above is these output of: lynx -dump http://172.16.22.8/yum/basepkg (root of repo) lynx -dump http://172.16.22.8/yum/basepkg/repodata lynx -dump http://172.16.22.8/yum/basepkg/iso lynx -dump http://172.16.22.8/yum/basepkg/iso/Server (rpms) I don't think there is a comps.xml below 'yum/basepkg'. repo "updates-local": http://freetexthost.com/sr11fkny32 ( far fewer rpms, about 10% of base!? ) Notice 'comps.xml' is at root of updates-local repo. -- Since yum was looking for versions of gdb and dogtail that neither of our local repos had do I need to ask our sys admin to get us access to a more up to date local repo base and updates repo? Specifically what should I ask for; what do we have a reasonable right to expect for local repos? -- >From 'man createrepo': EXAMPLES Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e. /path/to/rpms/comps.xml). createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms So, before there is any hope that 'yum grouplist' will work, my hunch is that I should ask our sys admin to re-run createrepo on the "base-local" repo server in this way: cp /path/to/comps.xml /var/www/html/yum/basepkg/iso/Server # rpms are in /var/www/html/yum/basepkg/iso/Server # Where will he get this comps.xml ( w/'Development Tools' & others )? cd /var/www/html/yum/basepkg # this is root dir of repo, having ./repodata as a subdir createrepo -g iso/Server/comps.xml -o . iso/Server # "-o ." so ./repodata is used # instead of /var/www/html/yum/basepkg/iso/Server/repodata What if 'iso/' above is a RO filesystem? Can comps.xml be written anywhere, as long as the arg to "-g" gives the full pathname to it? Where will the admin find the official/correct comps.xml? Perhaps the iso/ dir is a DVD or CDROM?: --snip/below from http://172.16.22.8/yum/basepkg/iso: Index of /yum/basepkg/iso [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description ________________________________________ [DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] Server/ 10-Aug-2011 17:43 - [ ] TRANS.TBL 10-Aug-2011 16:34 2.6K [VID] boot.cat 10-Aug-2011 16:34 2.0K [TXT] boot.msg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 292 [TXT] general.msg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 919 [ ] initrd.img 10-Aug-2011 16:34 7.9M [ ] isolinux.bin 10-Aug-2011 16:34 10K [ ] isolinux.cfg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 364 [ ] memtest 10-Aug-2011 16:34 92K [TXT] options.msg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 817 [TXT] param.msg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 517 [TXT] rescue.msg 10-Aug-2011 16:34 490 [ ] splash.lss 10-Aug-2011 16:34 23K [ ] vmlinuz 10-Aug-2011 16:34 2.0M Unfortunately, there is just 1 subdir above: 'Server/', and all it has are rpms (no comps.xml). -- thanks for any help, comments, corrections etc, Tom -- Basic question: Is the directory that contains "./repodata" considered the root of the repo, ie is "./repodata" a top level subdir of the repo URL? _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
