Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. <snip> >> 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. <snip> Ok, then why, after he's rsync'd from the mirror, and I try to PXEboot install, does it fail, asserting (and I just ran it, so I could get the exact wording): "Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."? I've compared the 6.0/os/x86_64 and 6.2/os/x86_64, and ownership, permissions, and directories seem identical. mark