Re: mergerepo weird behavior

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 10:56 -0400, Jon Wallace wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm seeing some weird mergerepo behavior I can't make sense of.  I have 
> three repositories, PRODA, PRODB, PRODC, and each has a single package 
> within it.  I'm trying to merge various combinations of these together.  
> The example below tries to merge PRODB and PRODC into PROD-BC.
> 
> 
> #mergerepo --repo=file:///<path-to-repo>/PRODB 
> --repo=file:///<path-to-repo>/PRODC -o PROD-BC
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:
>    Current   : Tue Aug  9 09:36:40 2011
>    Downloaded: Mon Aug  8 17:50:36 2011
> 3/3 - hp-PRODC-1.0-1.x86_64
> Saving Primary metadata
> Saving file lists metadata
> Saving other metadata
> 
> The "current" timestamp of Aug 9 9:36 corresponds to PRODA.
> The "downloaded" timestamp of Aug 8 17:50 corresponds to PRODB.
> Though not listed, PRODC repomd.xml has a timestamp of Aug 8 17:54.
> 
> The result is that I end up with a merge of PRODA and PRODC even though 
> I asked for PRODB and PRODC.
> 
> Here is the merged group file.
> #cat groups.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" "comps.dtd">
> <comps>
> 
> <group>
> <id>PRODA</id>
> <default>true</default>
> <uservisible>true</uservisible>
> <display_order>1024</display_order>
> <name>PROD-A Test Group</name>
> <description>This is PROD-A #1111.</description>
> <packagelist>
> <packagereq type="default">PRODA</packagereq>
> </packagelist>
> </group>
> <group>
> <id>PRODC</id>
> <default>true</default>
> <uservisible>true</uservisible>
> <display_order>1024</display_order>
> <name>PROD-C Test Group</name>
> <description>This is PROD-C #1111.</description>
> <packagelist>
> <packagereq type="default">PRODC</packagereq>
> </packagelist>
> </group>
> <category>
> <id>producta</id>
> <display_order>10</display_order>
> <name>Product-A Test Software</name>
> <description>Product-A Test Software - Hello </description>
> <grouplist>
> <groupid>PRODA</groupid>
> </grouplist>
> </category>
> 
> <category>
> <id>productc</id>
> <display_order>10</display_order>
> <name>Product-C Test Software</name>
> <description>Product-C Test Software - Hello</description>
> <grouplist>
> <groupid>PRODC</groupid>
> </grouplist>
> </category>
> 
> </comps>
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong, or what have I set up wrong with my repositories?
> Jon
> 


what ver of createrepo/mergerepo is this?

Can you go into /var/tmp/ and look for a tmpdir with your username in it
and clear it out? maybe something like  /var/tmp/yum-$username-blah

-sv