[CentOS] yam help

[Jim Perrin]

On 9/15/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my installation, when createrepo is invoked by yam, it dies saying
> something like "bad --update option". If I do createrepo by hand, all
> is fine.

Okay, can we move this to the Yam support list now, like dag kindly
requested at the beginning?

>
> On 9/15/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > 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...
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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>
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> Eduardo Grosclaude
> Universidad Nacional del Comahue
> Neuquen, Argentina
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