[CentOS] yam help

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Sep 15 23:15:35 UTC 2006


On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > Dag Wieers wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs.  I
> > > > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386.
> > > > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo.
> > > 
> > > This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct
> > > mailinglist. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > This is my current yam.conf file:
> > > > 
> > > >     [main]
> > > >     srcdir = /var/yam
> > > >     wwwdir = /var/www/yam
> > > >     arch = i386
> > > > 
> > > >     [centos]
> > > >     name = CentOS $release ($arch)
> > > >     release = 4
> > > >     arch = i386
> > > >     metadata = repomd
> > > >     os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/
> > > 
> > > Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that
> > > come with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files.
> > 
> > I'll try that again.  The first time I tried it, I was intending to
> > share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that.
> > I've since switched to http.
> > 
> > But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory?  I thought
> > that was what the file:// format was for?
> 
> Ok, I tried again with the ISO files.  My yam.conf is identical to
> above except that I've removed the 'os' line and added this:
> 
>     iso = CentOS-$release-$arch-disc?.iso
> 
> Yam now populates the RPMS.os directory with links into the ISO
> mounts, but it does not create the repodata directory.  I'm going to
> attempt to create it myself with the createrepo command, but it should
> happen automatically, right?

Do you have createrepo installed ? Did you use the -g option ?

Adding multiple -v options increases verbosity. Let me know if you find 
the cause...

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