On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Russ Lavoy <ussray_00(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to update my systems to centos 6.2. I am having an issue with
the repositories for 6.2 on a CentOS 5.7 Cobbler server. It tells me
"unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem
with the generation of your install tree." However, the repositories work
just fine if I point an existing centos 6 server to them and try to install
anything from them. Its only when I am kickstarting and trying to install
over HTTP that this fails.
To get this to work, I had to remove the repmod.xml and redownload it from
my internet source. Are the createrepo flags needing to be changed a bit to
support both operating systems?
From:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deploym...
Because RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are compressed using
the XZ lossless data compression format, and may also be signed using
alternative (and stronger) hash algorithms such as SHA-256, it is not
possible to run createrepo on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to create the
package metadata for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 packages. The
createrepocommand relies on
rpm to open and inspect the packages, and rpm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
is not able to open the improved Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RPM package
format.
HTH
--
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas