Try running createrepo in your repository directory, the one with the RPMs in it. cd {...}/i386 createrepo . Cheers, -- Wade Hampton On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:05 AM, zGreenfelder <zgreenfelder@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > so this may be an odd question, but my google fu seems to be failing me. > I've created a local mirror of centos 5 & 6 with various instructions > across the net, it seems to be functional, syncs on a regular basis,and is > generally usable (I've built machines with kickstart/netboot from it and > they seem generally workable). my difficulty comes up when I try to use > the local mirror for system updates. > > if I use the originally installed repo configs and run yum check-update, I > get a list of 10-15 RPMs for updates, if I change the repo files, do a yum > clean all, comment out mirrorlist and uncommenting/chang baseurl= > http://localmirror/path/to/repo and run a check, I get nothing. > if I look in localmirror:/path/to/repo and do a find for the version > numbers I got as available updates from the remote repositories, I find > appropriate files in seemingly reasonably named directory paths. > > my current best guess is that my repodata/repomd.xml file needs some sort > of update/rebuild via the createrepo script, but I can't seem to find the > 'right' way to this. does anyone have any pointers? > > thanks. > > -- > Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos