I dont know about the sha but i believe 5.8 got xz support in rpm. I:d be
curious to see what happens if he updates.
On Apr 22, 2012 9:30 AM, "Jörgen Maas" <jorgen.maas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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