[CentOS] EL7 mirror: "There is no installed groups file."

Thu Jan 9 00:00:30 UTC 2014
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>

On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> I installed the RHEL 7 beta here to test while waiting for CentOS 7 to 
> arrive.  On noticing that yum didn't work, I decided to set up a local 
> mirror.  I rsync'd
> 
>    ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/
> 
> to a local web server here, then regenerated the repodata directory with 
> createrepo.
> 
> Now yum works fine, for the most part.  "yum search foo" pulls up a 
> plausible list of packages, "yum install bar" chases dependencies as 
> expected, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately, "yum groupinstall" isn't working, which means I have no 
> easy way to install Gnome on my minimal EL7 installation.  Apparently I 
> need some kind of "groups file" to feed to createrepo --groupfile, but I 
> don't know where to get one, or how to construct one.  I've dug around 
> on ftp.redhat.com and can't find anything that looks plausible.
> 
> I've tried manually installing packages to build up this GNOME desktop, 
> but despite installing dozens of things, startx still doesn't give me 
> something usable.
> 
> I know I could get a GNOME desktop by reinstalling the OS, but that 
> would wipe out a lot of the local work I've done on this VM so far.
> 
> The only reason I need X in the first place is that 
> system-config-printer no longer runs in text mode.
> 
> (I'm trying to set up a CUPS server.  So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for 
> installing a printer now.  Lovely.)

How about using http://localhost:631 with lynx or some other such text
based browser.

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