Re: Readonly Repo - createrepo a folder up - works
"Gerd Bitzer" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Fajar, > Hi Gerd, > ... > > > > > Then I tried another way. Looking on a RHEL5 box standing around > > Yes, it's actually better for you to use RHEL5 instead of RHEL4 for > yum repository server. If you're stuck a with a RHEL4 machine that you > can't upgrade, remember that you can always have a chrooted RHEL5 > environment. > > > I noticed that a relative recent createrepo-0.4.10-1 is available in Dag > Wieers repo. > > Don't use it. Just use official RHEL5's (well, 5.1 actually) updated > createrepo. It should also be available from Centos. Meanwhile I can say, that createrepo-0.4.10-1 from Dag Wieers repo has not worked in my case. It only produced nearly empty metadata files > > >So I thought to install this version, without the whole above > mentioned hassle, and generate the metadata for my local repo on the > RH5 box and copy it over to the RH4 box, in the hope that there are > correct paths inside the metadata. But again no luck, same procedure > and problems as before :-(. Goddamned :-( > > Maybe it's because you use 0.4.10, and not 0.4.11. > Have you tried David's recipe? Mine is actually similar. So assuming > that you have two different boxes, RHEL4 and RHEL5, I recommend you do > this : > - mount RHEL4 DVD (or ISO) on RHEL5. Lets say the path is > /var/www/html/rhel4/dvd > - go to /var/www/html/rhel4 > - createrepo -v . > - start httpd > - access this repo from RHEL4 using either nfs (mounting > /var/www/html/rhel4) or via httpd (use /rhel4 path) > > It should work. I did so, and it worked. I used the createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6 from Redhat (not CentOS), and it worked in an instant from the webserver (thttpd), also with createrepo -v -p. Then I copied the repodata dir from the webserver over to my RH4 box, and it also worked. Seems that some packages of createrepo floating around have bugs inside. Thanks a lot to you Fajar, and of course also Dave > > Regards, > > Fajar > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail