On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Russ Lavoy
<ussray_00@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?
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 createrepo
command 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