I just tried an install from my local repo (boot from CD 1, use http method), and it failed right after entering the root password setting with:
Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree.
Reboot
So now what? Is there something I can just extract from the isos? (remember I did that rsync).
Is this caused by running createrepo after I copied the CDs, and before I did the rsync -r (so perhaps my tree info files are newer than those on mirror.centos.org)?
HELP?
--- Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just tried an install from my local repo (boot from CD 1, use http method), and it failed right after entering the root password setting with:
Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree.
Reboot
So now what? Is there something I can just extract from the isos?
Robert,
#cd /pathtorepo/5/i386 #createrepo -g ./repodata/comps.xml ./
#cd ../x86_64/ #createrepo -g ./repodata/comps.xml ./
the -g param will setup group data for your repo. This works for me -- adjust the $releasever (mycase=5) for your repo.
thanks
Mark Pryor wrote:
--- Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just tried an install from my local repo (boot from CD 1, use http method), and it failed right after entering the root password setting with:
Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree.
Reboot
So now what? Is there something I can just extract from the isos?
Robert,
#cd /pathtorepo/5/i386 #createrepo -g ./repodata/comps.xml ./
I did this and it ended with:
Could not remove old metadata dir: .olddata Error was [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/repos/centos/5.1/os/i386/.olddata' Please clean up this directory manually.
#cd ../x86_64/ #createrepo -g ./repodata/comps.xml ./
I did not build the x86_64 tree.
the -g param will setup group data for your repo. This works for me -- adjust the $releasever (mycase=5) for your repo.
OK, where is this #releasever set?
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Mark Pryor -
Robert Moskowitz