On 01/04/2012 10:39 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/04/2012 09:52 AM, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> I need a clarification to the documentation. >>> >>> My manager added a 6.2 repo; however, when I try doing pxeboot installs, >>> it fails, asserting that it can't find the group info. Another admin I >>> work with thinks it's not really what it's failing in, and notes that it >>> 404's on images/updates.img and images/product.img. We *think* that's >>> irrelevant and ok. >>> >>> What is not clear to me is when we run createrepo, what directory you need >>> to be in at the time you execute it. >> I would expect the createrepo to be done from the DVD root path, but I could >> be wrong on that point. >> >> Did you include the -g option to point to the comps.xml to include the package >> group info? >> >> Why are you doing a createrepo there at all? If you're adding your own >> packages to the base, why not have it as a separate repo? > You do not HAVE to run createrepo unless you want to do so, and in fact > I recommend that you don't. > > We do serveral things with createrepo, including providing deltarpms > (the yum-presto plugin) for updates where a usually much smaller DELTA > is downloaded for updates rather than the entire package. > > The options that we use for createrepo are: > > createrepo -g <path_to_comps.xml> -d --unique-md-filenames --deltas > --num-deltas=5 --update --oldpackagedirs=<path_to_old_packages> . > > > Note: The -g allows for groups and is optional. > Note: There are usually more than one --oldpackagedirs=<path>, > depending on where the old packages reside. We run it from the current directory (thus the . at the end above) ... but the current directory is usually /centos/<version>/<repo>/<arch>/ So, for the 6.2 i386 os repo it would be: <path_to_tree>/centos/6.2/os/i386/ Or for the 6.2 x86_64 extras repo it would be: <path_to_tree>/centos/6.2/extras/x86_64/
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