[CentOS] HELP! Group info problem

Mark Pryor tlviewer at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 4 21:06:25 UTC 2007


--- Robert Moskowitz <rgm at 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.

-- 
Mark

my C5 repo with the latest RequestTracker
http://www.tlviewer.org/centos/


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