On 01/04/2012 09:52 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, m.roth at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120104/188c5c22/attachment-0005.sig>