On 01/04/2012 09:52 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth@5-cent.us 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.